need just a quick push to help me get going into passing a multi dimensional hash into a sub...thanks in advance

tim  = 40 , 70, 50, 80
john = 98, 97 , 100, 89
eden = 87, 56, 89, 97
pepe = 93  ,91, 94, 90
leah = 100, 99, 99, 100
tony = 89, 94, 100, 89
matt = 68, 70, 75, 73

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maybe show me how to pass it by value and ref

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw(dump);
use autodie;

my %ave;
open my $in,'<', "testscores.txt";
while (<$in>){
    my ($name, $score) =split /[\s=s,]+/;
    for (0..3){
    $ave{$name}[$_]=$score;
    }
}
#dump \%ave;

get_ave(\%ave); #get it by hash_ref
my %hash_ref;  #why do I have to declare ?
sub get_ave{
    my $hash_ref =@_; #declared here too?
    my %hash=%$hash_ref;
    
    dump \%hash;
    #dump \%hash_ref;
    
    }

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In reply to passing multi dimensional hashes into a sub by perlynewby

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