strict 'refs' is wisely telling you that you're using symbolic references. You're setting $hashname to some string and then making a hash with that name. This is a "Bad Thing"(tm).

I suspect it will be easier to do the following: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::File;

my $filename = 'nt_data.txt';

my $fh = IO::File->new($filename)
    || die "Cannot open '$filename' for reading: $!\n";

my @nt_data;

while (<$fh>)
{
    chomp;

    my %x;
    foreach (split /,/) {
        my ($k, $v) = split /\s*=\s*/;

# This line becomes unnecessary ... you weren't using $hashname anyway
+s ...
#       if ($key =~ /^(LocalTran)(\w*)(Number)$/) { $hashname=$value; 
+}

        $x{$k} = $v;
    }

    push @nt_data, \%x;
}

$fh->close;

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In reply to Re: Problem with strict "refs" by dragonchild
in thread Problem with strict "refs" by nimdokk

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