$hash = test::this(\%hash); 
for my $box (keys %{$hash}){ 
    print "this is box $box\n"; 
   for my $par (keys %{$hash{$box}}){ 
          
       print "this is partition $par\n"; 
       for my $sec (keys %{$hash->{$box}->{$par}}){
        
           print "this is section $sec\n"; 
       } 
    }

}

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this is in package 
sub this 
{
     
$temp = @_;
$Dbox = "Dbox";
$DDD = "DDD";
 $temp{"Dbox"}= "Dbox"; 
 $temp{Dbox}{$DDD}= "DDD";
for my $box (keys %temp){
     print "this is box $box\n"; 
    for my $par (keys %{$temp{$box}}){
    
       print "this is partition $par\n"; 
       for my $sec (keys %{$temp{$box}->{$par}}){ 
       
           print "this is section $sec\n"; 
       }
    }

}

return \%temp;
}

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-----------------------
this is box Dbox
this is partition DDD
-----------------------
start of main prog
this is box Dbox

the bottom lines are the outputs, as can be seen while
in the funtion it prints whaever I stored but when it
gets back to main, it only prints the Dbox (I dont
even know how)
am I doing somthing wrong here? (duh...that's why it doesn work) thankx guys...

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.

In reply to Passing hash to package sub and get it returned .. by boobooboy

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