perl -MData::Dumper -e "@arr=['a','b']; print Dumper (\@arr)" $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b' ] ]; #### perl -MData::Dumper -e "@arr1=qw(a b);@arr2=qw(c d);foreach (@arr1,@arr2){print qq([$_]\n) }" [a] [b] [c] [d]