But shouldn't the foreach() have selected the first array element? If I have a simple array (anna, beth, christie, denise) and pass this @array to foreach, it returns the values. Well, @$fildref3 is a simple array, so when I pass it to foreach(), I expect it to return the members of this array, which is either an array of scalar pairs or the refs to these (in code example 2). I fail to understand why this doesn't work (simulated dump output): 
\@arr =
[
  1,
  2,
  3,
  [ anna, beth, christie, denise ],
]

foreach my girl (@$arr[3]) {
  print "$girl\n";
}

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This is what I try to do. Dump doesn't show:

\@arr =
[
  1,
  2,
  3,
  \[ anna, beth, christie, denise ],
]

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(Note the ref marker in front of the girl array.)

If I understand correctly, the @{} is needed to deref the array ref. But Dump shows me it's an ordinary array, like in my first simple array example in this post.

Thanks for helping out...

In reply to Re^2: foreach doesn't select array element by december
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