#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array1= ( { 'My_ID' => '86091', 'IP' => '2001:DB8:0:0:0:0:0:0/128' }, { 'mY_id' => '86091', 'iP' => '2001:DB8:0:0:0:0:0:0/32' } ); print Dumper(\@array1); print "\nCompare with\n"; @array1 = @{lowercase(\@array1)};#Dereference array ref to array print Dumper(\@array1); sub lowercase{ my $orig_aref = shift; local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1; #Eliminate '$VAR1 = ' my $string = Dumper($orig_aref); #Stringify contents of data structure my $arefmod = eval lc($string); #Make all data lower case and evaluate return $arefmod; }