G'day ObiPanda,
From your description, I think you're after something like this:
$ perl -e '
use Data::Dump;
my @Subscription = (
{
Sub_Name => "Morph",
Archive_File => "Morph Archive.txt",
},
{
Sub_Name => "Analogue",
Archive_File => "Analogue Archive.txt",
},
{
Sub_Name => "Cat",
Archive_File => "Cat Archive.txt",
},
{
Sub_Name => "Zoonotic",
Archive_File => "Zoonotic Archive.txt",
},
{
Sub_Name => "Hydro",
Archive_File => "Hydro Archive.txt",
},
);
some_sub([map +{Sub_Name => $_->{Sub_Name}}, @Subscription]);
sub some_sub {
my ($single_scalar) = @_;
dd $single_scalar;
return;
}
'
[
{ Sub_Name => "Morph" },
{ Sub_Name => "Analogue" },
{ Sub_Name => "Cat" },
{ Sub_Name => "Zoonotic" },
{ Sub_Name => "Hydro" },
]
Breaking that down into more manageable chunks:
-
In some_sub(...), the ... represents
what you "send ... to a subroutine".
-
What you're sending is [...].
That's an arrayref and covers "preferably by reference".
Here, the ... represents the contents of the arrayref.
-
The arrayref contents are generated using map.
You'll note that there are two forms: map BLOCK LIST and map EXPR,LIST.
The second is used here but, as the EXPR is a hashref ({...}),
the leading '{' can be confused with the leading '{' of a BLOCK.
Adding a plus, "map +{...", removes that confusion —
this is described in more detail about two-thirds of the way down the map page
(look for the paragraph beginning with "{ starts both hash references and blocks ...").
-
The hashref EXPR is a key/value pair.
The key is Sub_Name; the value is $_->{Sub_Name};
your OP code suggests you understand this — ask if that's not the case.
The LIST is @Subscription.
-
In sub some_sub {...}, I've used dd, from Data::Dump,
to show that a single scalar is received which is an arrayref with "one key & value per array/hash" as you put it.