use Modern::Perl; sub create_output (\@$) { my ($arrayref_of_lines, $entry_no_new) = @_; say "array: @{$arrayref_of_lines}"; say "scalar: $entry_no_new"; } my @array = qw/1 2 3 4/; create_output @array, 5; #### array: 1 2 3 4 scalar: 5