How to dereference hash references

Question

UPDATE: Everything I know about referencing/dereferencing came from here: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/perl-array-reference-examples/

I\'m working with a library

Answer 1

If @$result is an array then your LHS must be a list. Otherwise $hashref will be assigned the array size.

my ($hash_ref) = @{ $result};
print Dump($hash_ref));