Hi Im fairly new to perl and I am pretty stumped on a problem that I am having with hashes and trying to access a value of a key when I assign the value to be an array filled with stuff. I try to print the key and the value it returns is some crazy random numbers an integers like 3hx0jeh5. Please help 

print "Enter the value";
my $item_to_push = <STDIN>;
my @array = ('derp');
push(@array, $item_to_push);
print @array;

my %names;
$names{'bill'} = [@array];
print $names{'bill'};

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As you see I create a hash called %names, I assign a key in it called 'bill' to @array ( so that it is its value ), and I then try to print the value of the key 'bill' but this is what comes up. ARRAY(0x81c1f0)

In reply to Using Arrays with Hash key values by JohnTabor

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