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YADA (Yet Another Dumper Approach):
use Data::Dumper; my $VAR1; # must be this variable name # ... populate @array1 here ... eval Dumper( \@array1 ); my @array2 = @$VAR1; # ... now array2 is copied at all levels into its own storage at all l +evels

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