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mpegjohn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have read in a yaml file where we specified a perl range like my_range: !perl/range 0..4 We use Yaml::XS to read in the yaml. and we get $my_range which is a reference to a perl/range which is a reference to a scalar with a value '0..4'. I have de-referenced this and tried to use this to setup an array: @array={$$value), but all I get is an array with one element of value '0..4'. How do I setup an array with this? Thanks.