note Eliya <blockquote> <i>This fixes the problem: ...</i> </blockquote> <p> Actually, in this particular case, you could also just <i>not</i> initialize the array, i.e. simply say </p> <c> my @hashes; $hashes[$_]{$_} = 1 foreach (0 .. 9); </c> <p> and let autovivification do the job. </p> 972111 972111