I am using Data Dumper to send a perl hash ref from one server to another. Works great but for one weird thing. When I setup some hash refs i see something like this:

$VAR1 = {
          'test1' => [
                       {
                         'temp' => '123'
                       }
                     ],
          'test2' => [
                       $VAR1->{'test1'}[0]
                     ]
        };
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Where you see VAR1 I would like to find a way for this to just show the correct data instead of the reference. The code might help you understand more seeing the output.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my ($hash_ref, $var1);

print "This is my test of Data Dummper\n";

## Setup Data
$var1->{temp} = "123";

push (@{$hash_ref->{test1}}, $var1);

push (@{$hash_ref->{test2}}, $var1);

print Dumper($hash_ref);


## print new data
my $VAR1;
eval Dumper($hash_ref);

print Dumper($VAR1);

exit;
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Full output

$VAR1 = {
          'test1' => [
                       {
                         'temp' => '123'
                       }
                     ],
          'test2' => [
                       $VAR1->{'test1'}[0]
                     ]
        };
$VAR1 = {
          'test1' => [
                       {
                         'temp' => '123'
                       }
                     ],
          'test2' => [
                       undef
                     ]
        };
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As you can see test2 is undef instead of saying temp => '123'. Is there a way to fix this? thanks

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