bernhard@bernhard-Aspire-A515-57:/tmp$ cat t3.pl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dx; my @ElementList; push @ElementList, map {; "$_", 'X' } ( 1, 2 ); Dx( \@ElementList ); bernhard@bernhard-Aspire-A515-57:/tmp$ perl t3.pl #line 10 t3.pl ( \@ElementList ) = [1, "X", 2, "X"]