Lets first deal with the main code. You wrote:

foreach my $key (sort keys %clocks){
  print_clock_assertions(\{ $clocks{'$key'} });
}

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By putting single quotes around $key, you are now passing literally the text $key to the subroutine so you need to remove those single quotes as in: 

foreach my $key (sort keys %clocks){
  print_clock_assertions(\{ $clocks{$key} });
}

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Next, as I understood you you had has that contained references to hashes that contained clock information. In which the act of writting $clocks{$key} would return a reference to a clock hash, so you don't need to enclose the that in \{ }. So the next revision is: 

foreach my $key (sort keys %clocks){
  print_clock_assertions($clocks{$key});
}

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Your subroutine looks fine, though I always have problems discerning when perl will recognize something as an expression in double quotes or not. So if you do have problems change: 

print STDOUT "ref 1 :$hashref->{'speed'}\n";

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To:

print STDOUT "ref 1 :", $hashref->{'speed'}, "\n";

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Cheers...james

In reply to Re: hashes,references and subroutines by Anonymous Monk
in thread hashes,references and subroutines by diarmuid

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