If you're trying to build up the array with pushes, maybe try this:

push @$hash{'Element'}, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
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The paranthesis are redundant, and are just there to make the list visually obvious.

If you're adding one item at a time inside a loop it might look more like this.

push @$hash{'Element'}, $item;
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Or if you've got another array you're adding you could do it this way:

push @$hash{'Element'}, @array;
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If you're building the array up in one step you could do it this way, and additional elements could still be pushed onto it later:

$hash{'Element'} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
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I would have to see a snippet of five or ten lines of code that exhibits the misbehavior you're describing before I could comment on what's wrong. Post a small segment of code that shows the problem and maybe we can help figure it out. FWIW, there isn't anything special about a hash of arrays that would make scoping different for that entity than for some other entity.

Dave

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