Hello monks,
I have a module that gets information from a database, and has a sub that returns a hash. 
sub get_transactions
{
  my $transactions_id = shift;
  
  my $sql = <<EOSQL # the sql part works
EOSQL
  my $ar = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( $sql, undef, $transactions_id );
  my %transactions;
  for ( @$ar )
  {
    my ($date, $type, $amount, $new_balance) = @$_;
    %{$transactions{$date}} = ('Date' => $date, 'Type' => $type, 'Amou
+nt' => $amount, 'Ending_balance' => $new_balance);
  }
  return %transactions;
}

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if Dumper is used on %transactions in the module, the correct information is printed to the terminal, however, when I try to do this on a script, I get no output: 
my %transac = MyDB->get_transactions( 10000);
print Dumper  %transac;

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which outputs nothing.I have tried using references,
#Module:
...
return \%transactions;

#script
my $transac = MyDB->get_transactions( 10000);
print Dumper $transac;

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which output  $VAR1={}

I've managed to point the problem to how I'm calling the sub, but haven't managed tog et it to work as expected.
Thank you,

J -

In reply to returning a hash from a module by jms53

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