I am working on making a module to test my Perl skills. I am trying to return an object with hashes in it that you can access through the object, but I can't access the hashes.

Here is my code:

return bless {
              'hits'                  => { %hits },
              'hosts'                 => { %hosts },
              'hitsByDate'            => { %hitsByDate },
              'hitsByTime'            => { %hitsByTime },
              'hitsByDateTime'        => { %hitsByDateTime },
              'visitsByDate'          => { %visitsByDate },
              'visitsByTime'          => { %visitsByTime },
              'visitsByDateTime'      => { %visitsByDateTime },
              'methods'               => { %methods },
             };

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I am calling it like this:
my $al = new Apache::LogParser;
my $log = $al->getAccessLog();
my %hits = $log->hits;

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The module is Apache::LogParser and the getAccessLog() routines is returing the first section of code with the bless and hashes. The problem is it isn't returning hashes when I call $log->hits amd I can't figure out why.

I've tried returning it without blessing it and many other ways, but it just won't go. Do any monks know what I am missing or am doing wrong. I know the variables are filled because i can print them directly from the module. I just can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks for your time

In reply to Returning in a module by Mercio

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