in reply to Returning Hash from subroutine of form 'var' => 1,

To return a hash:

return ('nick_name' => 1);

To return a hashref:

return {'nick_name' => 1};

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Re^2: Returning Hash from subroutine of form 'var' => 1,
by NodXof (Novice) on Jun 15, 2015 at 20:27 UTC 
    # Check for duplicates
             $duplications = &LookForDups($nickname, $p);
             if ($duplications){
                  return {'nick_name' => 1,}
}

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