in reply to Scope of a Hash

I call a subroutine &createExcelChart that passes the hash in as *returnVals.

AAaaah !!! Why do you do this ??
Don't use typeglobs to pass variables around !
It's illegal ! It's punished by The Law (tm) ! It will not work with use strict !

If you want to pass a hash to a function you should use a reference to the hash, i.e : 

my %hash = ( 'some' => 'things' ) ;
callFunction( \%hash ) ;

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In the function you can for example dereference the hash : 
sub callFunction {
my $refhash = shift ;
my %hash = %$refhash ;
...
}

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Re^2: Scope of a Hash
by revdiablo (Prior) on Dec 15, 2005 at 20:02 UTC
    It will not work with use strict!

    It won't? Coulda fooled me.

        use strict;
    use warnings;

    sub foo {
        our $bar;
        $bar = "Hi";
        return *bar;
    }

    my $foo = foo();

    print $$foo, "\n";

    __OUTPUT__

    Hi

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    Not that I disagree with the rest of your post, though. This type of thing is odd, but it's not disallowed by strict by any means.

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