I've gotten my Array of Hashes built the way I want it. However, I'm running into a small problem when I turn strict on. I get the message: 
Can't use string ("XXX") as a HASH ref while 
"strict refs" in use at test.pl line 20, <LOG> line 1.

Here is the code I am looking at.

use strict;
use warnings;

my (@unix_data,@nt_data);


open LOG, "nt_data.txt" or die "Cannot open unix_data.txt $!";

while (<LOG>) {
 chomp;
 my $hashname;
 my @keysandvalues;
 my @field = split /,/, $_;
 foreach (@field) {
     my ($key, $value) = split /\s*=\s*/, $_;
     if ($key =~ /^(LocalTran)(\w*)(Number)$/) { $hashname=$value; }
     push @keysandvalues, $key;
     push @keysandvalues, $value;
  }
 %{$hashname}=@keysandvalues;
 push @nt_data,\%{$hashname};
}

foreach (@nt_data) {
 my $key;
 print "-+" x 90 . "\n";
 foreach $key (keys %{$_}) {print "$key => ${$_}{$key}\n";}
}

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Of course it works properly when I set 'no strict "refs";' in the block, but I don't want to do that, I want to find out why I am running into this problem. I am currently reading through the Camel Book to find a solution, but thought I'd post it here as well to see if I can't learn something. Thanks in advance. I'm sure the answer is quite simple but I can't quite get my head around it right now.

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In reply to Problem with strict "refs" by nimdokk

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