Dear Monks, I need wisdom to find peace for my restless soul.... So, I'm trying to process a text file, slightly re-format it in a more usable format. 
 
echo -e 'animal dog bark 2\nanimal dog woof 3\nanimal cat meaow 3' | p
+erl -MData::Dumper -lane '
    ($kind, $name, $say, $count) = @F;
    $h{$kind}{$name}{$say} = $count;
    END {
        foreach $kind (keys %h){
            foreach $name (keys %{$h{$kind}}){
                @say = keys %{$h{$kind}{$name}};
                print Dumper \@say;
                $b{$name} = \@say;
            }
        }
        print Dumper %b
    }'

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The output shows that when I print out the reference of the @say variable, that looks alright, but when I try to assign its value, somehow does not work. I'm sure, this problem is due to my bad knowledge of references, but it I could not find the solution elsewhere. Thanks for your guidance!

In reply to Reference madness by sdani

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