This feels like the wrong solution to the problem as the results are very messy. This seems like a good situation for a struct type solution:

use strict;
use warnings;

# make a little mini class for your records
use Class::Struct Record => [title => '$', rule_severity => '$', rule_
+weight => '$' ];

my %data_hash = ();
my @data_array = ();

$data_hash{first_key} = new Record;
$data_hash{second_key} = new Record;

# instead of pushing a text string of keys, just push field to access
push(@data_array, 'title');
push(@data_array, 'rule_weight');

# some code later changes the hash
$data_hash{first_key}->title('Mr. President');
$data_hash{first_key}->rule_weight(100);
$data_hash{second_key}->title('Emperor');
$data_hash{second_key}->rule_weight(1000);

# want to access it from your array
for my $key (sort keys %data_hash) {
    for my $field (@data_array) {
        print "My data is (".$data_hash{$key}->$field.")\n";
    }
}

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Output:

C:\tmp>tmp.pl
My data is (Mr. President)
My data is (100)
My data is (Emperor)
My data is (1000)

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In reply to Re: Storing an indeterminate number of hash keys in a variable by tj_thompson
in thread Storing an indeterminate number of hash keys in a variable by banesong

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