Assign address of one array to another in Perl possible?

Question

In the following C# code:

int[] X = new int[2];
X[0] = 1;
X[1] = 2;
int[] Y = X;
X[1] = 3;

After this executes, Y[1] will also be 3 since the o

Answer 1

Try doing this :

my @X = (1, 2);
my $ref = \@X;        # $ref in now a reference to @X array (the magic is `\`)
$ref->[0] = "foobar"; # assigning "foobar" to the first key of the array
print join "\n", @X;  # we print the whole @X array and we see that it was changed