in reply to Redirect array to a socket handle

You need to somehow convert your array into a stream a bytes which can later be converted back into a copy of the original array. That process is called serialization (not redirection). Storable provides a means of doing this.

Sender:

use Storable qw( nstore_fd ); nstore_fd(\@data, $rem_socket);

Receiver:

use Storable qw( fd_retrieve ); my $data = fd_retrieve($rem_socket);