It sounds like you want to pass references to hashes. You can look this FAQ up by:
  • perldoc -q pass hash
  • perldoc perlreftut
  • Super Search on PM 
    
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my %foo_hash = qw/elmer fudd slyvester cat/;
my %bar_hash = qw/bugs bunny tweety bird/;

foo(\%foo_hash,\%bar_hash);



sub foo {
    my ($hash1,$hash2) = @_;
    foreach (keys %$hash1) {
        print "$_ $$hash1{$_}\n";
    }

    foreach (keys %$hash2) {
       print "$_ $$hash2{$_}\n";
   }
}

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    In reply to Re: Pass data to a Module by grep
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