This could be rewritten as: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Make an array of hashes.
# This part works.

use strict; # <- Note the use strict

my @months = ();
my %m = ();

push @months, {
    full   => "january",
    abbrev => "jan",
    number => 1,
};
push @months, {
    full   => "february",
    abbrev => "feb",
    number => 2,
};
push @months, {
    full   => "march",
    abbrev => "mar",
    number => 3,
};

# etc
# Now try to print it out.

foreach my $month (@months) {
    print "$month->{full}\n";
    print "$month->{abbrev}\n";
    print "$month->{number}\n\n";
}

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This gets rid of the temp %m's you were creating as well and avoid the problem of the last reference wining, which is what you would have seen if you had changed the while to a foreach without changing the way you did your push.
You should also check out CPAN for date modules that might save you some time.

If you need to look at the contents of datastructure and not perform any action, that is verify content, you should look into using Data::Dumper, it would remove the need for the foreach and prints a nice tidy view of your data.

In reply to Re: Looping through an Array of Hashes by trs80
in thread Looping through an Array of Hashes by Anonymous Monk

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