Hi, I'm trying to populate/create an array of hashes, basics of the code is as follows. 
my @day;
my @night;
my @ip;
my $day = "someday";
my $start "some start time";
my $start "some end time";

foreach my $task((qw/day night ip/)){
 my %hash=();
 $hash{$day}{'start'}=$start;
 $hash{$day}{'end'}=$end;
 push @{$task},{%hash};
}

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($day, $start and $end are in this case are predefined. In the script they would be defined from values taken from a file)

My understanding of perl and references is a little flaky. What I "assumed" would happen is that the hash (%hash) would be put in to the three arrays @day, @night, and @ip creating an array of hashes. But for some reason they are not.

What I would like to know is
what I need to do to make strict happy without using

no strict "refs";

and
where are the hashes being stored?

Thanks
Mark.

In reply to trying to use strict :( by Anonymous Monk

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