Hello All,

Once again i call on you for guidence.

Im after putting 5 hases into an array, so i can return it with all five hashes from a method. The 5 hashes are created in the method, which is given two strings as input. The 5 hashes contain data (doesnt matter what it is). In the original call im assigning an array to the array of hashes returned by the method. I then want to extract each hash and assign the complete hash to a new hash.
Here is a sample of my code: 

#original call
my @array_of_hashes = get_array_of_hashes($value1, $value2);
my %probe_name = $array_of_hashes[0];
my %probe_start = $array_of_hashes[1];
my %probe_stop = $array_of_hashes[2];
my %probe_chromo = $array_of_hashes[3];
my %probe_seq = $array_of_hashes[4];

#method
sub get_array_of_hashes($$)
{ 
  my ($value1,$value2) = @_;
  my %hash_one;
  my %hash_two;
  my %hash_three;
  my %hash_four;
  my %hash_five;
  
  ## DO SOME STUFF HERE TO GET EXTRA DATA
  in a loop
  {
    $hash_one{$some_value} = $some_other_value;
    $hash_two{$some_value} = $some_other_value;
    $hash_three{$some_value} = $some_other_value;
    $hash_four{$some_value} = $some_other_valuee;
    $hash_five{$some_value} = $some_other_value;
  }
  push(@array_of_hashes, %hash_one);
  push(@array_of_hashes, %hash_two);
  push(@array_of_hashes, %hash_three);
  push(@array_of_hashes, %hash_four);
  push(@array_of_hashes, %hash_five);
  
  return @array_of_hashes;
}

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Im not sure what is wrong here, the error message I get says: 

Reference found where even-sized list expected

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Any thoughts ?

cheers,
MonkPaul.

In reply to Pulling a hash from within an array by MonkPaul

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