From: Mario Ruiz Date: 2008-04-10T20:57:06+09:00 Subject: Re: global array of hashes But not in this case: $globvar=Array.new() myHash=Hash.new() myHash["oneValue"]="mygenericvalue" $globvar[0]=myHash localvar=$globvar.dup localvar[0]["oneValue"]="mylocalvalue" puts $globvar -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.