You're right. I could have been more explicit in the original code, but I just wanted to give the gist, and so left large (and potentially important) hunks out. Of course I'd use my @array when I got it from "Thing" (which I'll assume is a line from a file which we're splitting to get an array) , à la : 

my @list_of_arrays;
while (<FILE>) {
    my @array = split "\t", $_;
    push @list_of_arrays, \@array;
}

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Because that gives you a (reference to a) fresh @array each time through the loop, instead of adding yet another reference to the same global array.

As tilly has pointed out, only giving *parts* of the answer may not be helpful ... So, as they said in that long-ago decade, let's be careful out there =)

Peevish answer to the interview question: "What, don't you people use strict around here? =)"

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Dynamic array names by arturo
in thread Dynamic array names by CiceroLove

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