Okay, I think I see what my mistake was. In my original sub get_events I had the line my ($formdata, $location) = @_ in order to grab the vars being passed. I think my mistake was that the individual vars weren't being passed, but rather an array containing the references to the hash and the scalar.

Tell me if I'm right from your above code: 
# get the reference to the array [args]
my $ref = shift;

# 1st element in array = reference to %formdata
# 2nd element in array = scalar $filelocation
my $hashref = $ref->[0];
my $fileloc = $ref->[1];

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Am I understanding this correctly?

In reply to Re: Re: passing hash elements as parameters by emilford
in thread passing hash elements as parameters by emilford

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