Re^3: Referencing/returning array of hashes from sub

Dereference your references as you need to work with them. There's no syntactic need to expand them into non-references. Instead of:

my @expanded = @$reference;

for my $element (@expanded)
{
   ...
}
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... you can just as well write:

for my $element (@$reference)
{
   ...
}
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