That doesn't really fix anything. The lexically scoped array will be altered, but the original array, @hello

I've never seen the OP message saying "The original array should be changed"

I've seen him creating a new array, but having difficultly to get the other variables values correct.

So while others assumed he want to change the original array, I assumed he wants to create a new one ... what's wrong with that ... and what's all that -- for?