push @{ $items_by_branch{ $item->{holdingbranch} } }, $item
unless exists $allocated_items{ $item->{itemnumber} };
}
- return unless keys %items_by_branch;
+ return \%item_map unless keys %items_by_branch;
# now handle the title-level requests
$num_items_remaining = scalar(@$available_items) - scalar(keys %allocated_items);