Hi ikegami,

Thanks for your reply. From the example you given, it means that the referrence will keep the array alive unless I destroy the referrence too (as below) 

 
my $ref;
{
   my @array = 'element';
   $ref = \@array;
}

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But what if I use like below 
{
my @array = 'element';
}
$ref = \@array;
print "$ref\n";

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OR

$ref=\@arr; #### @arr doesn't excist at all
print "$ref\n";

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In both this case I get a output like below

ARRAY(0x1830614)

Now where it's referring too? There is no such variable ... means no such memory location?

Thanks

In reply to Re^2: Dangling Pointer::perl referrence by Anonymous Monk
in thread Dangling Pointer::perl referrence by Anonymous Monk

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