As hdb said, unless you push a reference the original list is lost and there is no way to recover. If you push a reference you don't have a flat list in @biglist though, you have a list of lists which may not be what you want. Maybe the below code will help make it clear

use strict;
use warnings;

my @source = (
        [1, 2, 3],
        [4, 5, 6],
        [7, 8, 9]
);

my @bl1;
print "BL1:\n";
push @bl1,@$_ for @source;
print "$_\n" for @bl1;

my @bl2;
print "BL2:\n";
push @bl2,$_ for @source;
print "@$_\n" for @bl2;

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Output:

BL1:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
BL2:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

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In reply to Re: Getting individual lists from a bigger list by Loops
in thread Getting individual lists from a bigger list by vishi

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