how do you get off this list?
>From: blowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'Martijn van Exel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: referencing and subroutines.
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:51:20 -0600
>
>You could return the data by reference... The documentation is at
>
>perldoc perlref
>
>But in summary it would be
>
>sub parse
>{
> my $hashRef = {};
>
> $hashRef->{ONE} = 45;
>
> return $hashRef
>}
>
>my $result = parse();
>
>print $result->{ONE};
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:38 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: referencing and subroutines.
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to this list and quite new to Perl. I'm on digest, so I'd
>appreciate a cc.
>
>I have written a subroutine to parse a text file containing a flat file
>database. The data ends up in a hash of hashes, say %datafile. This hash is
>created on the spot, looping through the data in a foreach loop. The data
>coud then be retrieved using $datafile{$record}{$fieldname}. This seems to
>work, but the hash won't travel with me out of the subroutine. I'm not
>using strict, so I'm being messy with my declarations, probably. Do I need
>to end the subroutine using return?
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>--
>martijn van exel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://huizen.dds.nl/~mvexel
>
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