I am currently working on a perl module Im returning a hash %dbReturn to the caller. This is the final snippet of the code for the return 
        my $row_hash;
        $x=0;
        while($row_hash = $st->fetchrow_hashref) {
                if($wildCard==1) {
                        foreach(@tables) {
                                my $col;
                                foreach $col(@$_) {
                                        $dbReturn{$x}{$col} = $row_has
+h->{$col};
                                        $x++;
                                }
                        }
                }
                else {
                        foreach(@fieldNames) {
                                $dbReturn{$x}{$_} = $row_hash->{$_};
                                #print "$dbReturn{$x}{$_}\n";
                        }
                }
        }

        return $dbReturn;

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The caller is doing 
 my $dbData = $dbFunctions->query($queryString)
 my $something = $dbData->{}{};

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I have tried putting known data into the {}{} and it does not work. I know the data in $dbReturn is present because if I call it from the module itself everything works fine. Everything is using strict and warnings. If I try to return the data as 
 return %dbReturn;

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I get the following error apon execution Can't use string ("1/8") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at test.cgi line 14. Here is a data demo datatable for $dbReturn
$dbReturn{0}
$dbReturn{0}{'ID'} $dbReturn{0}{'Firstname'} $dbReturn{0}{'Lastname'}
0 John Doe
$dbReturn{1}
$dbReturn{1}{'ID'} $dbReturn{1}{'Firstname'} $dbReturn{1}{'Lastname'}
1 Jane Doe
So My Question is, Im probably returning the hash wrong. How should I be returning it? Thanks in advance

In reply to Returning Hashes by Anonymous Monk

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