#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $data1 = [
{
    'NAME' => 'JOE DOE',
    'DATE' => '2015-05-05',
    'NUMBER' => '00001'
},
{
    'NAME' => 'Anonymous Monk',
    'DATE' => '2015-06-11',
    'NUMBER' => '00005'
}
    ];

print Dumper $data1;

__DATA__

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'DATE' => '2015-05-05',
            'NUMBER' => '00001',
            'NAME' => 'JOE DOE'
          },
          {
            'NAME' => 'Anonymous Monk',
            'NUMBER' => '00005',
            'DATE' => '2015-06-11'
          }
        ];