my @first = ( ['1','2','3'],
           ['11','22','33'] );

my @second = map { reref ( @$_ ) } @first;
$first[0][2] = 4;

print "$first[0][2]\n";
print "$second[0][2]\n";

sub reref {
    my @out = ();
    push (@out, $_) for @_; 
    return \@out;
}
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This builds a new anonymous list reference for each list in the list. There is probably a better solution, but this works for your stated problem.

For the record, I have decided to purge the word array from my Perl vocabulary. Perl's lists have only the slightest relationship to arrays in other languages.

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