Along with having an array reference as opposed to a hash reference, ref($aref) returns ARRAY, not LIST, so that'll never catch.

Here's a basic example for review and to do some testing with:

: 
use warnings;
use strict;

my $struct = [
    {
        1 => 'a',
        2 => 'b',
    },
    [
        1,
        2,
        3,
    ],
    {
        3 => 'c',
        4 => 'd',
    },
];

thing($struct);

sub thing {
    my ($aref) = @_;

    for my $elem (@$aref){
        if (ref $elem eq 'ARRAY'){
            print "array:\n";
            print "$_\n" for @$elem;
        }
        elsif (ref $elem eq 'HASH'){
            print "hash:\n";
            print "$_ => $elem->{$_}\n" for keys %$elem;
        }
        else {
            die "element is not an allowed ref\n";
        }
    }
}

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Output:

hash:
1 => a
2 => b
array:
1
2
3
hash:
3 => c
4 => d

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In reply to Re: Stuck on a Perl assignment by stevieb
in thread Stuck on a Perl assignment by ickopicko

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