This couldn't be a simpler question. say i've got a string stored in $current_board[$x] (value of $x is unimportant) and the form of the string is something like " - - -P- -K- - - - - - - - -". I want to split the string into an array with "-" as the delimiter and then i want to reassign the scalar $current_board[$x] to be a reference to the new array. Here's my current working implementation in 2 lines of code. It seems I should be able to remove the need for the @tmp variable and get it all onte one line...but how? 
my @tmp = split('-',$current_board[$x]);
$current_board[$x] = \@tmp;

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