Recursive code with a little piece of testing data: 
use strict;

my @result;

my @a = (1, 2, [3, [4, 5]], 6, [7, 8, [9,10], [11, 12]], {1=>13, 2=>{2
+=> 14}});
de_ref(\@result, \@a);
print(join(",",@result));#expect 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14

sub de_ref {
    my ($result, $source) = @_;
    if (!ref($source)) {
        push @{$result}, $source;
    } else {
        if (ref($source) eq "ARRAY") {
            foreach my $ele (@{$source}) {
                de_ref($result, $ele);
            }
        } elsif (ref $source eq "HASH") {
            foreach my $ele (values %{$source}) {
                de_ref($result, $ele);
            }
        } elsif (ref $source eq "SCALAR") {
            push @{$result}, $$source;
        }
    }
}

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Two reminders about this piece of code:
  1. ref of types other than scalar, array and hash are ignored (those being ignored include REF, CODE, and GLOB), as it looks like you only want those three types
  2. assume that there is no circular ref

In reply to Re: dereferencing hash & array refs by pg
in thread dereferencing hash & array refs by parv

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