I would use your own solution, but put this in an '_init', so I could set some initial values (if needed). This could then be called from your 'new' or when you want to 'reset' the object: 
sub new
  {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = {};
  bless($self, $class);
  $self->_init;
  return $self;
  }

sub _init
  {
  my $self = shift;
  foreach my $key (keys(%{$self}))
   { delete $self->{$key}; }

  $self->{hours_on_the_job} = 0;
  $self->{people_shot} = 0;
  etc...
  }

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Then you can just call $self->_init; whenever you wish to reset the data.

.:| If it can't be fixed .. Don't break it |:.

In reply to Re: "cleaning out" object data by aukjan
in thread "cleaning out" object data by Forsaken

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