my @array; my %hash = ( 1,2,3,4 ); push @array, \%hash; push @array, { another => one => yeah => 1, }; use Data::Dumper; print $array[1]->{another}, " bites the dust\n\n"; die Dumper \@array; __END__ one bites the dust $VAR1 = [ { '1' => 2, '3' => 4 }, { 'another' => 'one', 'yeah' => 1 } ];