Is it possible to reference a specific array element? For instance:

my @array = (21..102);
my $ref = \$array[5];

$$ref = 4;

print $array[5];

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Essentially I want to be able to pass this reference to an element of the array to a sub for editing. Or more precicely, I want to go through the array one element at a time and pass one argument at a time to another function for modification. Any idea how I would go about this? Is it even allowed? While I do use normal refs on a regular basis, this is something I'm clueless for... so any help would be appreciated, down to a technical explanation of how they do referencing in perl. (I'm curious but I lack the skill in other languages to actually understand how perl itself was written... hehe)

Thank you for any assistance or advice as to other ways I could achieve this.

Note: I actually did try the equivilant of the above... yielded things like \45 instead of a reference...




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