Hi Monks,

I am trying to pass a variable as an argument to a module but it is returning a hash. Not sure what I'm missing.

Here is the module:

package htmlCode2;

use CGI;
use DBI;


#Create new CGI object
my $cgi = new CGI;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    return bless {}, $class;
}

sub htmlHead {
my $title = shift;
print $cgi->header("text/html");
print $title;
print "<br>";
}


1;
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and here is the code that calls the module:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard escape escapeHTML);
use DBI;
use htmlCode2;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

#Create new CGI object
my $cgi = new CGI;

#Create new htmlCode object
my $htmlCode = new htmlCode2;

$htmlCode->htmlHead("Title Test");

print "Test Text";
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when I access it through my browser I get this:

htmlCode2=HASH(0x9cfbb3c)
Test Text

Thanks in advance for any help,
Rich

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