Does that make it more clear?

Nope. Just a big mess of unintelligible console output.

Returning a hashref from a subroutine is simple and straightforward:

%hash = ( subhash1 => { a=>1, b=>2 }, subhash2 => { c=>3, d=>4 } );;

sub getSubhash { 
    return $hash{ $_[0] } 
};;

pp getSubhash( 'subhash1' );;
{ a => 1, b => 2 }

pp getSubhash( 'subhash2' );;
{ c => 3, d => 4 }

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Which means you must be doing something wrong.

So, how about you post:

Then we'll be able to point out what you are doing wrong.

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In reply to Re^3: How to return values from a hash? by BrowserUk
in thread How to return values from a hash? by perl-diddler

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