Ok, here is how I fixed it:
my $_passThis;
foreach my $key (keys (%_billingInfo)) {
    $_passThis .= $key .'='. escapeHTML ($_billingInfo{$key}) . "^";
}
my $_cardCharged = chargeCard($_passThis);

# And at the subroutine I fixed it this way:
sub chargeCard {
    my $_passedList = shift;
    my @_PassedL = split (/\^/, $_passedList);
    my %_billingHash = ();
    foreach my $_k (@_PassedL) {
        ($_key,$_value) = split /\=/, $_k, 2;
        $_billingHash{"$_key"} = $_value;
    }

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That worked! :o) Thank you guys for your advice of passing a list, just making 1 variable like a QUERY_STRING seperated instead of with a ^ instead of & because I might have a name of 'Rick & Chantelle' as a first name which would throw it off, so I used the ^ to seperate each.

Thank you very much Richard

In reply to Re: passing hash to subroutine by ukndoit
in thread passing hash to subroutine by ukndoit

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