Re: Local Copy of a member variable

[Roy Johnson]

You'll need a deep copy. See Data::COW. Update: Or, as holli suggests below, Scalar::Util::Clone. The former will do actual copies only of things you change; the latter will copy everything, but fast. So if it's a big structure that you're only modifying a little of, use Data::COW; if you're going to modify a substantial portion of it, use Scalar::Util::Clone.