If order is important, pop is wrong in both examples: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my @array1 = qw/ball bat helmet/;
 print qq{\@array1 before: (@array1)};
 ;;
 my @array2;
 while (@array1) {
   my $item = pop @array1;
   print $item;
   push(@array2,$item);
 }
 print qq{\@array2 after: (@array2)};
"
@array1 before: (ball bat helmet)
helmet
bat
ball
@array2 after: (helmet bat ball)

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shift does the trick: 
c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -e
"use Data::Dump qw(dd);
 ;;
 my @array1 = (qw/ball bat helmet/, 0, undef);
 dd '@array1 before:', \@array1;
 ;;
 my @array2;
 while (@array1) {
   my $item = shift @array1;
   dd $item;
   push(@array2,$item);
 }
 dd '@array2 after:', \@array2;
"
("\@array1 before:", ["ball", "bat", "helmet", 0, undef])
"ball"
"bat"
"helmet"
0
undef
("\@array2 after:", ["ball", "bat", "helmet", 0, undef])

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In reply to Re^2: Printing an array using while loop by AnomalousMonk
in thread Printing an array using while loop by knapper19954

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