sub main{
my $path;
my @paths;
my %alarm_details;
my @alarm_details;

@paths = </TELECOM_PROJ_MAIN/sas/tmp/t*>; #giving the file path
foreach $path(@paths){
        %alarm_details = {};
        open(LOG,"<$path") || die "can't open log ";
        $alarm_details{filepath} = $path;
        while (<LOG>) {
           /^(.*)=(.*)$/;
           $alarm_details{ $1 } = $2 if ($1);
        }
        push(@alarm_details,\%alarm_details);
    }
return Dumper(@alarm_details);
}

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The above code reads the contents from a file and puts them in a hash.i want to reuse this hash in another method ..how do i do that?
The return statement in the above code does not give me the entire elements in the array..it jus gives me the last hash in the array..
how do i get the entire elements in the array

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