Hello kerchunk, and welcome to the Monastery!

I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you are asking:

But I don't seem to have any visibility of the target hashref outside of measureHashrefLength...

I assume the “target hashref” is $allActivity_hashref, but I don’t find any reference to measureHashrefLength in the code shown?

In any case, note that although you’ve commented the declaration of $allActivity_hashref, etc., under “globals”, variables declared with my are lexicals, not (package) globals (which are declared with our). A lexical variable declared at file scope, as here, is visible throughout the rest of the file, but not within code in other files using the same package.

Please clarify where you want to access the “target hashref”, and how it fails to be visible.

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: no visibility to global hashref ?!? by Athanasius
in thread no visibility to global hashref ?!? by kerchunk

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