This looks a bit strange for an internal variable. I would guess that something like this would come from the outside via a file, etc. Maybe a config file? If that's true, then there are better config modules and syntax for this.

But anyway, if this is what you have, then I would parse it in the easiest way possible - this is one line. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $var ='[1,2]'; 

my @var = split (/[\[\],]/, $var);
print "@var";

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This says to split the line based upon the character set of [ ] ,. The required \ escape characters confuse this a bit, but that's all there is to it. to use array ref to this just push \@var on some list...

In reply to Re: Converting a String to Array Reference by Marshall
in thread Converting a String to Array Reference by Anonymous Monk

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