Firstly my snippet: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = ("w", "h", [1, 2, "c"]); 
foreach (@array)
{
    if(ref($_) eq 'ARRAY')
    {
        foreach (@{$_})
        {
            print $_,"\t";
        }
        print "\n";
    }
    else
    {
        print $_,"\n";
    }
}

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Now what I am doing is iterating over the contents of the array and testing each element using the builtin 'ref'. Now if the array element is an arrayref, I iterate over that and print the contents. This prints: 
w
h
1       2       c

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To print the contents of the array ref - I first have to dereference it by using @{}. This is the way I do it though there are most likely other methods.

I suggest you look at Advanced Perl Programming for more details :).

HTH
SP

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