No, you can't. But you can do something just as good, use Storable; more specifically, freeze & thaw. Hm. Except that freeze doesn't create an ASCII only representation of the reference. But you could add URI::Escape to make it clean: 
  use strict;
  use URI::Escape;
  use Storable qw(freeze);

  my $hashref={ Foo=>1, Bar =>'string' };
  my $frozen=uri_escape(freeze($hashref));
  my $output=`otherscript.pl $frozen`;
  print $output;

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and in your otherscript.pl, do something like: 
  use strict;
  use URI::Escape;
  use Storable qw(thaw);
  use Data::Dumper;

  my $hashref=thaw(uri_unescape(shift @ARGV));

  print Dumper $hashref;

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Update: Oops, you said "array reference", not "hash reference". Sorry; but the idea should be the same. But a warning, this method is limited entirely by the size of the reference that you are passing. If it's too big, the command-line version of it will probably exceed your OS's limit.

In fact, this method probably isn't a good idea in any circumstances :)

mr.nick ...

In reply to Re: Can I pass a reference between two scripts? by mr.nick
in thread Can I pass a reference between two scripts? by CuriousGeorge

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