>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "sub fillArrays { my( $r1, $r2 ) = @_; @$r1 = qw(one two three); @$r2 = qw(four five six seven); } ;; fillArrays( \my (@arr1, @arr2) ); ;; dd \@arr1, \@arr2; " (["one", "two", "three"], ["four", "five", "six", "seven"])