#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; our @data = ( {unit => 'S', value => 50, }, {unit => 'T', value => 60, }, {unit => 'Q', value => 70, }, ); LOCAL_BLOCK: { local(@data) = @data; $_->{unit} = 'S' for @data; } print Dumper \@data;