# create and fool around with an array my @rray = (); $rray[0] = "foo"; push @rray, "bar"; print $rray[1], "\n"; # prints "bar" # create and fool around with an arrayref my $arrayref = []; $arrayref->[0] = "foo"; push @$arrayref, "bar"; print $arrayref->[1], "\n"; #prints "bar"