You may be using package globals to store your data instead of properly scoped object containers such as a blessed lexical hashref. But this response is about as reliable as if you had taken me to a room full of people I don't know, put a blindfold on me, spun me around six times, and asked me to point to Kevin. We need to see code posted to be able to disect what you've done wrong. I recommend boiling the problem down to no more than 20 or so lines of code that replicates the problem and posting it here.

amnesty_puppy: Can't get to my code right now but that sounds like the right problem, I just declared it with my $hashref = {};. How should it be defined properly? I'll look it up in the camel when I get a minute. Thanks.

Can you post some code? It sounds like you are using a package variable where you should be using an object property.

Update: davido is correct, this is a wild guess. Its just my first instinct.

 #!/usr/bin/perl

package Database;

my $database = {};

sub TIEHASH {
  my ($class, $key, $value, @options) = @_;
  
  # my $db = DBI->connect(...);
  # ... more database stuff
     
  $database->{"$key"} = $value;
        
  return bless $database;         
}

sub FETCH {
  return $database->{"One"};
}
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use Database;

my %one, %two;

tie (%one, Database, "One", "hard");

print $one{"One"};

tie (%two, Database, "One", "soft");

print $two{"One"};
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