perl change ref of hash

Question

I ran into this and couldn\'t find the answer. I am trying to see if it is possible to \"change\" the reference of a hash. In other words, I have a hash, and a function that ret

Answer 1

Sounds like you want:

use Data::Alias;
alias %hash = $h->hashref;

or if %hash is a package variable, you can instead just do:

*hash = $h->hashref;

But either way, this should almost always be avoided; why don't you simply use the hash reference?