#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Devel::Peek; my @a = (1) x 1024; my @b = (1) x 1024; open my $fh, "> /dev/null" or die; print $fh $_, "\n" for @a; print $fh "$_\n" for @b; close $fh; Dump $a[0]; Dump $b[0];