a different was to assign the @var1 array without having it get disconnected?

Its an array :) so assign to individual elements not the whole thing (means use []) 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd / ;
my @f;
my $ref = \@f;
dd\@f;
$f[0] = 12;
dd\@f;
@f[5,5,6,] = ( 5,5,6);
dd\@f;
$ref->[2] = 2;
dd\@f;
@{$ref}[1,3]=(1,3);
dd\@f;
__END__
[]
[12]
[12, undef, undef, undef, undef, 5, 6]
[12, undef, 2, undef, undef, 5, 6]
[12, 1, 2, 3, undef, 5, 6]

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See Tutorials and perlintro and chapter 3 of free book Modern Perl and references quick reference

In reply to Re^4: TK "textvariable" not updating with @var but ok with $var by Anonymous Monk
in thread TK "textvariable" not updating with @var but ok with $var by mark4

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