Hi Chromatic, Yessir. You are right. I tried the following and that output didnt take time. so this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#My First Reference called ref1.pl!!
my $array = [qw(this is a test to check anonymous arrays)];
print "@{$array}\n";
print "$array->[3]\n"

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gave the following output in no time. 
C:\perl\practice>perl ref2.pl
this is a test to check anonymous arrays
test

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Well, if the disk i/os are causing that then that could be a problem for me..... I wanted to create a refence to an anonymous array so that it can hold command line outputs and I can play around with it.....I tried it with  ping localhost command and that took even longer...say about 6 seconds..... May be I shouldnt use reference to anonymous arrays for storing command line outputs..cause that wont be a good way to deal with it.

Note - I wanted to make an anonymous array with words in it...I tried  qw [this is a test to check anonymous arrays]but Perl told me something like "Useless use of a constant..."...so I tried some other ways and finally tried  [qw(this is a test to check anonymous arrays)] and that seems to work.

Is that the right way of creating a reference to an anonymous array with words in it?

In reply to Re^2: why is my reference taking a while to execute? by perl514
in thread why is my reference taking a while to execute? by perl514

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