my @array = qw/ create mount remove /; my $array = [ ['create', 'mount', 'remove'], ['create', 'mount', 'remove'], \@array, # essentially the same values \@array, ... ]; #### #!/perl/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; for my $subarray (@$array) { push(@$subarray, 'foo'); } print Dumper($array); #### __OUTPUT__ $VAR1 = [ [ 'create', 'mount', 'remove', 'foo' ], [ 'create', 'mount', 'remove', 'foo' ], [ 'create', 'mount', 'remove', 'foo' ], [ 'create', 'mount', 'remove', 'foo' ], ];