I am currently looking into using structures in a program I am working on. For readability, I was wanting to use structures. Now I found the Class::Struct module and was using that, but then I found that Perl 5 Version 12.2 has Elaborate Records which are very similar to structures from what I can see. Now to build my skills with Perl, I am investigating how to use references, and references with arrays in these elaborate records.

The Problem:

I would like to learn how to retrieve the value for a reference to a scalar from an elaborate record and how to work with references to elaborate records. 
my $stg_username = "PerlMonk";
my $stg_password = "VeryGoodPassword";
my @ary_email_address = [ "Monk1", "Monk2", "Monk3" ];

$EllabRecord = { m_username    => \$stg_username
                , m_password    => \$stg_password 
                , m_emailAddress    => \[@ary_email_address] };

print $stg_username;
print $EllabRecord->{m_password};    #prints out "SCALAR (0xAABBCC)"
&PrintArray( \$EllabRecord );

sub PrintArray {
    $reference = $_[0];
    print $$reference->[m_emailAddress]->[0], "\n"; #gives a "Not an A
+RRAY reference at...Line XX"
}

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If you can either provide me with clear code examples or a good guide to how this is done, either would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance.

In reply to Elaborate Records, arrays and references by KyussRyn

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