$ perl -e 'print [qw/1 2/]' ARRAY(0x97116c) #### my %foo = ( name => [ qw/ Ovid is a fool / ], date => { once => 'in a', blue => 'moon' } ); #### $ perl -e '$h={a=>2,b=>3,c=>4};print %$h' a2b3c4 $ perl -e '$h={a=>2,b=>3,c=>4};print @$h' Not an ARRAY reference at -e line 1. $ perl -e '%h=(a=>2,b=>3,c=>4);@a=%h;print@a' a2b3c4 #### $ perl -e '@a=(1,2); $foo=\@a; push@a,\@a;print $foo, $/, $a[-1]' ARRAY(0x980028) ARRAY(0x980028)