I have a subroutine which needs to return two hashes. Obviously, if it just said return (%a,%b) it wouldn't work. So I must return references to hashes.

The thing is, I don't want references to hashes later in the program (Lazy).

So far, I could only think of doing something like:

my ($first,$second)=routine();
my %first=%{$first}; my %second=%{$second};

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I have considered passing the two hashes to the subroutine as parameters, and then in the subroutine assigning values to $_[0], but I would prefer not to do that because I don't find it very readable.

I've looked for inspiration in perldoc perlref, but I found none. And yet I feel that there must be a way to do it.

In reply to Returning two hashes from a sub? by matija

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