You're very welcome, I'm glad it worked.

A little more info on when you said "is ALMOST an Array of Hashes". When printing with Data::Dumper, you always pass in a reference to the structure you're printing, so if the outermost part of the structure is an array (), it'll automatically get converted to [] in the output as you've passed in a reference to the array. In fact, the API itself returns the array as a reference in the first place, so you wouldn't need to take a reference to it when passing it into Dumper. These are equivalent when referring to Data::Dumper...

my @array = (1, 2, 3);
print Dumper \@array;
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my $aref = [1, 2, 3];
print Dumper $aref;
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So it is really an Array of Hashes (AoH), it just looks a tiny bit different when the outermost part of the structure is a reference. You also need to access and use them slightly differently as well (by using dereference operators).

So is the dereference operator \@array or the use of ->?

Take a reference (ie. make $aref a reference of @a):

my $aref = \@a;
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Extract one element from the array ref by using -> deref operator:

my $thing = $aref->[0];
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Use the array circumfix operator to dereference the whole array ref at once:

my @b = @{$aref}; # used in loops, too
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I've proposed part of my reference howto as a tutorial here on PM. It may further help your understanding: Tutorial RFC: Guide to Perl references, Part 1.