Based on this part of the error diagnostics:

"my" variable $book_ref masks earlier declaration in same scope at DisplayStuff.pm line 100

the first thing I'd do is search backward in the module from line 100, looking for "$book_ref", to see if it's declared with "my" at some point outside of any other subroutine -- i.e. lexically "global" within the module file (excuse me if those terms are not exactly correct, but I hope you get the idea).

The other possibility, given the nature of the syntax error reports, is that a previous sub or other block is lacking a closing curly brace, causing the "sub display_basic" to be considered as part of some other block of code (which also happens to declare its own "my $boof_ref"); if you use a programmer's text editor that supports automatic indentation (like (x)emacs) -- in the sense that the editor can parse the code well enough to indent a line appropriately, based on the current bracketing depth -- this can help a lot to watch for cases where you've forgotten a close-bracket somewhere.

In reply to Re: Passing hash references into subs by graff
in thread Passing hash references into subs by Indomitus

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