I'm really astounded by both the depth and number of replies :) To fill in the situation a little more, what's going on is I have a screen where I do something like the following x number of times (basically for every field I have ...): 
COMPANYNAME: {
        my $company_name = $cgi->textfield(
            -name=>'company_name',
            -default=>$tabdata->{CompanyInfo}->{company_name},
            -size=>30
        );
        $screen->AppendToSection('body',<<"EOF");
            <tr>
                <td class="fieldname">Company Name</td>
                <td class="fieldvalue">$company_name</td>
            </tr>
EOF
}

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I ended up settling with the above situation. Each field that's on the form (and these are very complex forms at times..) gets it's own little section like that for clarity. By placing it in the code block, the variable goes out of scope as soon as the block's done...(since I no longer need the variable...) Is this the Wrong Thing to Do(TM)?

In reply to Re: Re: Hashes/Scalars and Memory Usage by EvilTypeGuy
in thread Hashes/Scalars and Memory Usage by Anonymous Monk

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