I've gotten myself stumped with a perl coding problem that appeared to be
a no brainer. What is the easiest way to de-reference hashes(2 or more)
returned from a function by reference?
The way I normally do this is as follows:
my ($hasref1, $hashref2) = function();
my %hash1 = %$hashref1;
my %hash2 = %$hashref2;
sub function {
..
.
..
.
return (\hash1, \hash2);
}
Essentially I'm wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to de-
reference these hashes on the line containing the function call. I guess
what this boils down to is if it is possible to treat a function as an
array (knowing that it returns an array of information). I know, for
example, that the following doesn't work: $element = function()[1];
Thank you.
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