#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array_of_strings = qw (10 20 0x47 1 30 0b011); # # "qw" is "quote word(s), this is the same as: # my @array_of_strings = ("10","20","0x47","1","30","0b011"); print Dumper \@array_of_strings; # only string context not "numbers" my @array = map{eval $_}@array_of_strings; # or my @array = map{eval $_} qw (10 20 0x47 1 30 0b011); print Dumper \@array; __END__ prints: $VAR1 = [ '10', '20', '0x47', '1', '30', '0b011' ]; $VAR1 = [ 10, 20, 71, 1, 30, 3 ];