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scalar context, see perlop
my @stuff = 1 .. 10;
print "dot aka period  ". @stuff ."\n";
print "comma ", @stuff ,"\n";
__END__
dot aka period  10
comma 12345678910

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Re^2: Help with a dereference
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 06, 2009 at 19:55 UTC
    Or even direct string interpolation: 
    >perl -wMstrict -le
"my @stuff = 1 .. 10;
 print qq{interpolate @stuff here};
"
interpolate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 here

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    Update: Using something closer to the code of the OP: 
    >perl -wMstrict -le
"my $stuff = {};
 my $this  = 'here';
 $stuff->{$this} = [ qw(foo bar baz) ];
 print qq{interpolate @{ $stuff->{$this} } here};
"
interpolate foo bar baz here

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      Thanks guys,

      I mainly was checking that @{$matches->{$user}} was correct, because I actually was using it in an if statement then iterating through it to print to a filehandle.

      I was using print to test that the array looked right and the periods were hanging me up.

      Thanks again.

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Re^2: Help with a dereference
by koaps (Novice) on Nov 06, 2009 at 19:54 UTC
    thanks
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