Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Mon 09/20/2021 15:47:19 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings use Data::Dumper; my $ar_1 = [ qw(knights who say ni) ]; my $ar_2 = [ qw(foo bar baz quux) ]; # push @$ar_1, @$ar_2; $ar_1 = [ @$ar_1, @$ar_2 ]; print Dumper $ar_1; ^Z $VAR1 = [ 'knights', 'who', 'say', 'ni', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'quux' ];