Forgive me a rather elementary question about hashes. I have a hash of arguments that I would like to pass to a subroutine. Some of the arguments are themselves hashes, e.g.:

my %userHash;

$userHash{$thisUID}{'name'} = 'Some Charming User';
$userHash{$thisUID}{'alias'} = 'some.charming.user';

my %args = (users => %userHash, domains => %domainHash, path => $path)
+;

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What I'm confused about is how to treat the hash arguments within the subroutine. This, for instance, doesn't give me the result I was expecting:

doSomethingUseful(\%args);

sub doSomethingUseful
{    
    my $params = shift;
    my %args = %$params;
    
    my %users = $args{users};
    my %domains = $args{domains};
    my $path = $args{path};

    if (keys %users > 1)
    {
        print("I was hoping you'd say that.");
    }
}

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In reply to Hash as Hash Value by Kerplunk

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