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References, Pointers

   

#Perl references are also called pointers. 
#A pointer is a scalar variable that contains the address of another variable. 
#To create a pointer, the backslash operator is used.

# Create variables
$age = 25;
@siblings = qw("A", "B", "C","D");
%home = ("owner" => "A",
         "price" => "B",
         "style" => "C",
);

# Create pointer
$pointer1 = \$age;       
$pointer2 = \@siblings;  
$pointer3 = \%home; 
$pointer4 = [ qw(red yellow blue green) ]; # Create anonymous array
$pointer5 = { "A" => "a", "B" => "b", "C" => "c" };
                                           # Create anonymous hash

   
    
    
  

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