It looks like @cleared is an AoA

The curly braces suggest to me that it might be an AoH instead.

johngg@shiraz:~/perl/Monks$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
my @AoH = (
   { jobName => q{Director}, jobProfile => q{Three day week}, },
   { jobName => q{Manager}, jobProfile => q{9to5}, },
   );
foreach my $job ( @AoH )
{
    say $job;
    say $job->{ jobProfile };
}'
HASH(0x562033e731e0)
Three day week
HASH(0x562033e92488)
9to5

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I agree though that the unless ($x =~ m/^Something Else/){ does look weird as it would seem to be trying to match against a stringified reference. I suspect that we are not seeing the whole story.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re^2: Loop Array - If $var is something write values until $var is something else by johngg
in thread Loop Array - If $var is something write values until $var is something else by maikelnight

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