I am using perl 5.10. I am iterating through a for loop. inside that loop I am trying to add an array to a list and then clear the array so I can add different items on the next iteration of the for loop. But when I clear the array, it's clearing the array that I already added to the hash. Here is my code:

      # WRONG!!! This will create a reference (so when we clear it
      # a couple lines later everything will be deleted).
      # $current_main_record{"role_data"} = \@role_records;
 
      # CORRECT? Recursively copy everything in the entire array,
      # so that we can clear it a couple lines down?
      
      # Clear array for next go-round of the loop?.
      @role_records = ();
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I want $current_main_record(“role_data”) to hold @role_records, an array of hashes. I want to create a new array with the same name, I guess. How do I do that?