Re: Returning Hash from subroutine of form 'var' => 1,

[kroach]

Could you please provide more context (the assignment and use of the returned value and a full working example)?

The return itself seems fine. The following code works:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

sub ret_hash {
    return nick => 1;
}

my %hash = ret_hash();
print Dumper(\%hash);

Perhaps you are trying to return a hash reference. If you assign the function result to a scalar you should return a reference. Anonymous hashes can be created with {}:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

sub ret_hash {
    return {nick => 1};
}

my $hash = ret_hash();
print Dumper($hash);