Maybe I am going about this wrong, but I think there should
be a way to do this.

I want to have a hash of array reference so I have the following 
code snippet:

<OUTSIDE LOOP>

    undef(@selections);

    while ((my $choice) = $sth->fetchrow_array())

      {

        push(@selections,$choice);

      }

    $selections{$_} = \@selections;

<END OUTSIDE LOOP>


The result of this is that when I undef the array to clear 
in preparation for the next iteration, I also undef the ref
from the previous iteration(s).  Then the next ref is created
and all values in the hash are the same reference which happens
to be the last reference used.

So, how do I build an array, put the ref into a hash and then 
loop back again so I can build up the next array to make a ref to 
put in the hash and so on.

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