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Monolith-0 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to pass two hashes to a subroutine, but it seems I cannot do that..

Here's some of the code I'm working with:
sub register { my (%error, %FORM) = @_; ### <- note this line my $CGI = new CGI; my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => 'register.tmpl', path => $cfg{'template_path'} ); $template->param( ERROR => $error{'any'}, ERROR_NAME => $error{'name'}, USERNAME => $FORM{'username'}, ERROR_NAME_TAKEN => $error{'name_taken'}, ERROR_PASS => $error{'pass'}, ERROR_PASS2 => $error{'pass2'}, ERROR_EMAIL => $error{'email'}, EMAIL => $FORM{'email'} ); print $CGI->header; print $template->output; # temp debug stuff print ".."; print $FORM{'username'}; print $error{'name'}; } sub register_submit { # Get the stuff submitted from the form read(STDIN, my $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); # Split the name-value pairs my @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); my %FORM; foreach my $pair (@pairs) { my ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); # Remove plus signs and decode %-encoding $value =~ tr/+/ /; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $value =~ s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g; $FORM{$name} = $value; } # Check for errors in the data my %error; if (!$FORM{'username'}) { $error{'name'} = 1; $e +rror{'any'} = 1; } if (!$FORM{'password'}) { $error{'pass'} = 1; $e +rror{'any'} = 1; } if ($FORM{'password'} ne $FORM{'pass2'}) { $error{'pass2'} = 1; $e +rror{'any'} = 1; } if (!$FORM{'email'}) { $error{'email'} = 1; $e +rror{'any'} = 1; } if ($error{'any'}) { &register(%error,%FORM); ### <- note this line } else { ## Go on doing the stuff it's supposed to do } }

I have found that the subroutine 'register' gets the first hash alright, but it doesn't pick up the second one. I can see why this might not work, but my question is if there is any way I can get it to work. If not, then could I still get some suggestions on what I might do otherwise to achive the desired effect?

- Monolith