Greetings again Monks, I am having a problem with casting of a HASH that returned to a scalar. Here is a example 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MADEUP::MODULE;

#Compeletly made up module
my $made_up = new MADEUP::MODULE;

#A member function of MADEUP::MODLE which returns a hash
my $test = $made_up->Return_Hash();

#I know the key "fake_key" and I want to print off of it
print $test{fake_key} . "\n";

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This will throw a error "Global symbol "%test" requires explicit package name" I understand that there is a differnce between the scalar test "$test" and the hash test "%test" <aka $test{fake_key}> so I try the following to cast it.. 
print %{$test{fake_key}} . "\n";

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I get the same error.. but if I try the following: 
my %another= %{$test};
print $another{fake_key} . "\n";

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everything works... What is going on??

In reply to "Casting Question" by crackotter

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