$ perl -E ' use Data::Dumper; my @x = (qw{a b c d e}, [1,2,3]); say @x; print Dumper \@x; ' abcdeARRAY(0xa00003bc8) $VAR1 = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', [ 1, 2, 3 ] ];