Hello Monks

I am having some difficulty parsing back out the data contained in a hash reference. I am looking to print the data that I have passed in the reference. I can do it with Dumper but that's it.

I would REALLY like a pointer to the perl books on where this is covered. I need to bookmark it.

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $names = &getNames;

my $valid_names = &validateNames(\$names);

sub getNames {

  my %data; 
  $data{'SCM555'}{'name'}='foo';
  $data{'SCM555'}{'email'}='foo@bar.com';
  $data{'SCM556'}{'name'}='foo2';
  $data{'SCM556'}{'email'}='foo2@bary.com'; 
  return \%data;
}

sub validateNames{ 
  my $valid_names=shift; 
  print Dumper($valid_names); 
  # I want to access ( print ) the data here

}
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TIA

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