ok thanks for your input. I corrected the problem in a doofangled way.. I passed type by reference to the function and only returned the hash. I don't know if I like it but it works atm.

Here is my next question. If I get a scalar hashref back from that function like so,  $mynewref = findResults() do i simply pass that ref to another function who needs access to the hash data. ie. assignResultSet($mynewref); and then simply treat it as a hashref inside the sub? I wouldn't think you would pass it as a ref again because then you would need to doubly deref it unless i'm mistaken. That is my hunch but I'm not sure if that's the correct/accepted way to do it

In reply to Re: Re: Returning multiple values from a function by Grygonos
in thread Returning multiple values from a function by Grygonos

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