You're misusing Data::Dumper, which is what's confusing you. D::D takes a list of references to data structures you want to dump out. That's why you're seeing the $VAR1, $VAR2, etc. If you're trying to print out just one thing, you should only see $VAR1. Try the following with my code. 
print Dumper( $allshows );

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You'll get something along the lines of: 
$VAR1 = [{
          'title' => 'All Bets Are Off',
          'type' => '2',
          'number' => '215',
          'id' => '1'
         },
         {
          'title' => 'Who Is My Neighbor',
          'type' => '2',
          'number' => '217',
          'id' => '2'
         }
        ];

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which is what you want to pass to H::T - an AoH.

The reason why your last try isn't working is because you're doing string concatenation. The result of assigning an array reference to a string is the ARRAY(0x83db738) crap, which is the type and the memory address of the reference. That isn't what you're looking for, I suspect.

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In reply to Re^3: How to get an acceptable H::T AoH ref by dragonchild
in thread How to get an acceptable H::T AoH ref by bradcathey

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