use Tie::IxHash; my @Loh; for (1..5) { my %hash; tie %hash, 'Tie::IxHash'; push @LoH, \%hash; # a separate instance of the lexical %hash # is created each time through the loop } #### for (qw/Just another Perl hacker/) { $LoH[0]{$_} = $_; } print join(' ', keys %{ $LoH[0] }), "\n";