Hi I am new in perl, was wondering how i can pass array reference from one perl file to other, I am able to pass complete array from one file to other sucessfully but when i pass the array reference it fails E.g. I am passing array from test-1.pl to test-2.pl

#test-1.pl

my @array = (1,2,3,4,5);

my $test = \@array;

open (FILE, "| ./test-2.pl");

print FILE "$test";

close (FILE);

#...............close...........

#test-2.pl

foreach (<>) {

$temp = $_;

}

print "array = @$temp";

#.................. close............

Error : "Can't use string ("ARRAY(0x26158c0)") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use"

Any suggestion ...?

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