#! perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @params = qw(homer marge bart lisa maggie); dbAction(@params); sub dbAction { print Dumper( @_), "\n"; print Dumper(\@_); } #### $VAR1 = 'homer'; $VAR2 = 'marge'; $VAR3 = 'bart'; $VAR4 = 'lisa'; $VAR5 = 'maggie'; $VAR1 = [ 'homer', 'marge', 'bart', 'lisa', 'maggie' ];