This is a sub routine that I copied from CPAN. It works fine as it is when I run it from the command line. I have a similar function from Net::Traceroute that also works fine AND allows me to return the string with a SOAP call. The problem comes when I try to return the ~string(?) from the function below with a SOAP call.

sub tr {
    use Net::Traceroute::PurePerl;
    my $t = new Net::Traceroute::PurePerl(
         backend        => 'PurePerl', # this optional
         host           => 'www.whatever.com',
         debug          => 0,
         max_ttl        => 30,
         query_timeout  => 2,
         packetlen      => 40,
         protocol       => 'udp', # Or icmp
    );
    $t->traceroute;
    $t->pretty_print;   

    return $t;
    #print $t;
}

The output looks like a string except the last part of the string looks like this:

28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *
Net::Traceroute::PurePerl=HASH(0x11fa6bf0)

I don't know what is different about Net::Traceroute::PurePerl that won't allow me to return the value with SOAP since the Net::Traceroute version does allow me to return it with SOAP.