Thanks Dave. I am learning more and more that all possible Perl questions have already been answered... one just has to read the docs.

That said, I guess I use Dumper so much that I didn't even notice what it was saying to me...

#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.pl

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @foo = ('a', 'b', 'c');
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When I run the above, I get...

> test.pl
$VAR1 = 'a';
$VAR2 = 'b';
$VAR3 = 'c';
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I didn't even notice that it was reporting each variable separately and not as a part of an array.

I go looking for trees, and forget that I am in a forest.