$ perl -MData::Dumper -wE'@a=qw(1 2 3); @b=qw(4 5 6);add1(@a, @b);say Dumper \@a, \@b;sub add1{++$_ for @_}' $VAR1 = [ '2', '3', '4' ]; $VAR2 = [ '5', '6', '7' ];