Uhhh....I got that! But what I mean is, the reference points to the hunk of memory where the data structure resides, correct? So if I can print the data in main, not using a reference, then that tells me that the data and its structure exist, right? So, I think the problem (and maybe you're saying the same thing) is that when I'm using the reference in the subroutine, I'm not using the proper syntax in the foreach loops to reference these data...however, the data (and their structure) are there in memory....Is my understanding of this correct? If so, then my question is, HOW do I reference these data in the subroutine so that I can 'get at' them in the inner loops? bigtiny

In reply to Re^4: Cannot dereference hash in subroutine.... by bigtiny
in thread Cannot dereference hash in subroutine.... by bigtiny

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