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Get reference to a scalar

    

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $text = "This is a value";

my $ref1 = \$text;
my $ref2 = \$text;

print $ref1 == $ref2;  
$$ref1 = 'New value';
print $$ref2;   

   
    
    
    
  








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