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in reply to How to substitute the elements in an array without changing the original array.

And to add to these fine comments for future reference, they only really apply to simple scalars (strings, numbers), array references, hash references, etc are a slightly trickier matter.

You would need to make copies of the data itself and not just the references to the data

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