Anonymous Monk,
Each element of the array points to an anonymous hash containing exactly two keys. I doubt you would prefer this syntax any better: 
@{$envars[0]}{qw(value description)} = ('23' , 'temperature in Celsius
+');
@{$envars[1]}{qw(value description)} = ('56' , 'relative humidity in %
+');

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If you can, you might want to change to a hash of arrays: 
@{ $envars{value} } = qw(23 56 1008.1 4 344);
@{ $envars{description} } = (
    'temperature in Celsius',
    'relative humidity in %',
    'pressure in millibars %',
    'dwpoint in degrees Celsius',
    'total column ozone in Dobson Units'
);

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Populating an Array of Referenced Values by Limbic~Region
in thread Populating an Array of Referenced Values by Anonymous Monk

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