use strict;
use warnings;

my %v;
$v{hourly_worker_expenses} =    { # elaborate on this !
                                'all' => 16
                };

$v{hourly_worker_cost} = &{sub  {
                                my $cost = 0;
                                my $item;
                                my %costs = $v{hourly_worker_expenses}
+;
                                #print %costs;
                                foreach $item ($costs)
                                {
                                    $cost += $costs{$item};
                                }
                                #print $cost;
                                return $cost;
                                }
                          }();


print $v{hourly_worker_cost};
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There is something about hashes that is screwing me up. Thanks,

Global symbol "$costs" requires explicit package name at test.pl line 
+13.
Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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I have tried so many different things, but here are some of them:

my %costs = \$v{hourly_worker_expenses};

my $costs = $v{hourly_worker_expenses};

my $costs = \$v{hourly_worker_expenses};

I originally didn't even mess around with the $costs/%costs hash and I
+ tried to do the += with $cost and $v{hourly_worker_expenses}
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Thanks for looking,

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