#!/your/perl/here use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array = 0..4; print "\@array ", \@array, "\n"; print Dumper @array; my %hash; $hash{one} = \@array; print "\%hash x1\n"; print Dumper %hash; my @array = 'a'..'e'; print "\@array ", \@array, "\n"; print Dumper @array; $hash{two} = \@array; print "\%hash x2\n"; print Dumper %hash; print "";