Having an issue with Text::CSV::Slurp not seeing my array of hashes. Here's some code that generates a hash just as my production script does: 
use Modern::Perl;
use Text::CSV::Slurp;
use Data::Dumper;

sub generate {
    my %inline;
    $inline{'total'} = 2;
    $inline{'items'} = [
        { 'name' => 'item1' },
        { 'name' => 'item2' }
    ];
    return \%inline;
}

my $ref = &generate();

print Dumper( $ref->{'items'} );

my $csv = Text::CSV::Slurp->create( input => $ref->{'items'} );

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I have multiple steps doing this same thing with no issue, and a quick Dumper output from those looks to be the exact same as the Dumper output from this code above. e.g. $VAR1 = [ {'key' => 'val' },{ 'key' => 'val' } ]; however it keeps coming back with "Need an an array of hashes input to create CSV from" and I'm a little lost as to why. I've even compared against those that work with the following: 
print "\$ref->{'items'} is " . ref( $ref->{'items'} ) . "\n";
foreach my $item ( @{ $ref->{'items'} } ) {
    print $item->{'name'} . " is " . ref( $item ) . "\n";
}

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Which yields: 
$ref->{'items'} is ARRAY
item1 is HASH
item2 is HASH

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And both look the same. I'm hoping I'm just missing something really simple here, but any help is appreciated.

In reply to Issues with Array of Hashes by ciscomonkey

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