Re^4: Dynamically named hashes (w or w/o strict)

lol, the reason for me using "no strict" was due to a fundamental lack of understanding :-)

Kennethk's post below has cleared it up a bit for me (see comment).

my $hash_ref = {one => "number"};
my $i = 0;
$hash_ref->{"a"} = "letter"; push @array, $hash_ref; $hash_ref = {}; #This "resets" or creates a new reference?
%{$hash_ref} = (banana => "fruit",
carrot => "vegetable");
push @array, $hash_ref;

I thought if you used the same name then it would alter the same hash. So to narrow down my understanding gap... anonymous hashes. If I am still fundamentally wrong here then please let me know :-) Cheers!

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Re^5: Dynamically named hashes (w or w/o strict) by Porculus (Hermit) on Dec 11, 2008 at 22:15 UTC
$hash_ref = {}; #This "resets" or creates a new reference? The latter. Any time you write `$variable = {}` or `$variable = { foo => "bar" }`, etc, Perl creates a new anonymous hash.	[reply] [d/l] [select]