Trying to push onto a hashref will produce an error so my guess is that $data_b is coming back from wherever as an AoH to begin with. 

  DB<1> $a = { qw/ foo bar/ }

  DB<2> $b = { qw/baz quux/ }

  DB<3> x +{ %$a, %$b }
0  HASH(0x7ff1242138f0)
   'baz' => 'quux'
   'foo' => 'bar'
  DB<4> x push @{ $b }, $a
Not an ARRAY reference at (eval 17)[/System/Library/Perl/5.18/perl5db.
+pl:732] line 2.

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In reply to Re^2: Add array ref to another array ref by Fletch
in thread Add array ref to another array ref by Anonymous Monk

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