I think you are just missing to return the values after you push your data, this is why you are not getting any data and causing you to get an error. Please see below. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @array;
my $new_array = do_something( @array );

print Dumper \$new_array;

sub do_something {
    my ( $Array_ref ) = shift;

    push( @{ $Array_ref } , { file => 'test1.zip',
      price  => '10.00',  desc  => 'the 1st test' } );

    return $Array_ref;
}

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In reply to Re: share array of hashes between main program and thread by bichonfrise74
in thread share array of hashes between main program and thread by Adler

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