Re: packing an array of hashes

Aha. Many thanks.
Now I'm on the right track (see Anonymous Data in the Perl Cookbook, ch. 
11).

Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> 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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