Hello, I have some data that I would like to store in a hash of arrays, however this has proved to be a little complicated for me. I have written some test code below to investigate the behavior of this particular data type, and would like some help trying to understand it. 
%Hash = (
                ArrayInHash => [1,2,3,4],
                );
                


print "Array in hash: @$Hash{ArrayInHash}";

@Array = @$Hash{ArrayInHash};
print "\nArray: @Array";

$ArrayRef = $Hash{ArrayInHash};
@Array2 = @$ArrayRef;
print "\nArray from ordinary scalar reference: @Array2";

print "\n\nTrying a foreach loop with the hash";
foreach(@$Hash{ArrayInHash})
{
    print "\n$_";
}

print "\n\nTrying a foreach loop with the scalar array reference";
foreach(@$ArrayRef)
{
    print "\n$_";
}

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This produces: 
Array in hash:
Array:
Array from ordinary scalar reference: 1 2 3 4

Trying a foreach loop with the hash


Trying a foreach loop with the scalar array reference
1
2
3
4

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Why didn't the first two print statement or foreach loop act on the array? There's got to be a better way to access the array besides setting the reference to an ordinary scalar first. Thanks

In reply to How to use hash of arrays by iKnowNothing

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