In bar(), $idand $location, which fills your %location hash, are values and no references to anything.
I think that they are the values from coloum 'id' and 'location' from your database !!!

So if you want to get the location for i.e. id=4 you have to write  $location{4}
But all in all you can do it a bit more easier I think: 

use DBI;
my %location = map {  $_->[0] => $_->[1] } @{$dbh->selectall_arrayref(
+'select id, location from ndmw_location')};

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There's also a $dbh->selectall_hashref() possibility, but I can't figure out, how it works ;-)
Maybe perlodoc DBI can help ?

Hope this helps ?

In reply to Re: Passing a hash between subs by physi
in thread Passing a hash between subs by wil

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