Re: "cleaning out" object data

[holli]

You could simply bless an empty hash with the classname of the object.

$obj = bless {}, ref($obj);

[Forsaken]

That would make $obj point to a new object within its own scope, but all other references to the original object would still be intact, as would the data stored in the original object. I'll make a small example in the OP to clarify.