Re: packing an array of hashes

Chris Cosner wrote:
> If you put a hash reference into an array
>     push @array, \%hash;
> you do not store any actual hash data in the array.
> So if you change the hash, then later pull the hash reference from the 
> array and access it, you get changed data.

push @array, { %hash };

This creates an anonymous hash and populates it with the contents of %hash.  It makes a copy of %hash.  Of course, if %hash has any references, they will be copied but not their contents.


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