Hi,

Again I am mystified by references and hashes. I am trying to pass a hash to a subroutine where upon I generate a new hash containing a copy of the original hash and some new dublicate information. (phew ... check out the code it's easier :-) 

my (%clocks);
# snip
# clock is built up like this :
$clocks{$pin_name}{'period'} = 12;
$clocks{$pin_name}{'size'} = 63  # etc.....
#
# What I want to do is create a new hash with same info
# and with a copy of the information eg
# $new_clock{'test'}... copy into $new_clock{'test_probe'}
# 
# Here's my attempt at that subroutine
sub duplicate_probe_signals {
  my ($pin_hashref) = shift;
  my %new_hash;
  foreach my $pin ( keys %{$pin_hashref}){
        # exclude some pins
    next if grep(/$pin/,@no_probe_pins);
    $new_hash{$pin} = $pin_hashref{$pin};
    my $pin_probe = $pin."_probe";
    $new_hash{$pin_probe} = $pin_hashref->$pin;
  }
  return %new_hash;
}

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This is wrong but can anyone point me in the right direction

Diarmuid

In reply to more fun with references and hashes by diarmuid

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