greg@sparky:~/test$ cat enum #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Data::Dumper; $ref=\(0..3); $enum_list=\(4,5,6); print "\n".Dumper($ref)."\n"; print "\n".Dumper($enum_list)."\n"; greg@sparky:~/test$ ./enum $VAR1 = [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]; $VAR1 = \6;