Hi there, correct me if i am wrong, what you want to do is assign to @ary all the values of %hash? Well, if i am right, what U are doing here.

@ary = (\%hash);
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Is passing a hash reference to @ary, lets supose %hash have the following:

%hash = ( 'foo' => 'bar', 1 => 2 );
# with this line
@ary = (\%hash);
# i would need to do something like this to access the values
print $ary[0]->{'foo'}; # And i will get 'bar'
print $ary[0]->{1}; # And i will get 2
# But if you just want to get all the values from the hash 
#to the array, just remove the "\" when you assign it
@ary = (%hash);
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I hope to be right and answer that you need
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