HELP! - trouble returning values

[Anonymous Monk]

My function call looks like this... my $mailbox = $conn->getMailboxAvailablity ( DOMAIN => $UserDomainName MAILBOX_LIST => $UserLoginName) Regardless of what the function looks like, it's returning HASH(0x222b4c) instead of a "T" or an "F" like I expect. Does anybody know why? Is that the right way to return a string value to my $mailbox variable?

[Adam]

Please wrap code in <code> code tags </code>

     my $mailbox = $conn->getMailboxAvailablity (
          DOMAIN         => $UserDomainName
          MAILBOX_LIST   => $UserLoginName)

if $mailbox is HASH(0x222b4c) then getMailboxAvailability() is returning a hash reference. You need to dereference it. The clearest way (but definately not the only way or even the best way... TIMTOWTDI) is like this:

my %dereferenced_hash = %{$hash_reference};

# of course, you can also access elements via the ref directly:
print "yeah\n" if exists $$hashref{'key2'};

# or even
print "insufficient\n" unless $hashref->{'balance'} > $request;

But your question is a bit vague so I'm not sure what you are asking. You didn't post a complete subroutine, so I don't know what's really going on. But at least I can tell you how to deal with HASH(0x222b4c)

[ncw]

Which module are you trying to use?

If that is real code you pasted then there is a comma missing after $UserDomainName. I suspect it isn't real code though, so could you make a short example and update your question with it so we can help further?