Okay, I'm lost on this...I thought I finally had the solution to using a reference to an element of an array in a foreach loop, but now I have a stranger problem. Any help would be appreciated.

In this hash I create my list of subroutines I wish to call and a descriptive name for them - they will be elements in a menu in a Perl Tk script:

my %choices = (
        'fs_sub' => 'File Systems',
        'mem_sub' => 'Memory'
);

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Further in the script I attempt to call the list in a foreach loop:

foreach (keys(%choices)) {
           $choice_menu->command(-label => $choices{$_},
                -activebackground => '#CCCCCC',
                -command => \&$_);
}

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All seems to work, except that the second (last) set of keys/values in the hash is repeated. Or more appropriately, the foreach loops twice on the last set, giving me:

File Systems
Memory
Memory

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...in my menu.

Any ideas why it is doing this?

Kickstart

In reply to perlref repeats last of array by Kickstart

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