I noticed that under 5.6.1 when doing some DBI work. It took me forever to realize that every element in the @data array was actually being set to the same address. 

while( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {
   push @data, $row;
}

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I thought it had something funky to do with the $row ref being outside of the while loop's curly-brace scope (is this a closure?). I solved the problem thusly: 

while( my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {
   my $row = $ref;
   push @data, $row;
}

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I never saw a problem with row ordering. And, from my logic, this really shouldn't work. It reads (to me) that I'm copying the $ref reference into the $row variable, instead of creating a new reference. But, for whatever reason, the array started working the way I figured it should.

I had chalked this up as my not completely understanding the logic and scoping of references.

In reply to Re^2: Substr ref anomoly (revisited) by tadamec
in thread Substr ref anomoly (revisited) by BrowserUk

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