I want to call a perl function from Java that returns an array. Has anyone ever got this to work? I've tried:

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl

sub sayHi {
@array = ("dog", "cat", "monkey", "owl");

return \@array;
}

1;

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and got the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaException: Can't create Java array of non-array class 'java.lang.Object' at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Inline/Java/Class.pm line 143 at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaServer.jni_callback(Native Method) at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaCallback.Process(InlineJavaCallback.java:124) at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaPerlCaller.CallPerl(InlineJavaPerlCaller.java:143) at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaPerlCaller.CallPerlSub(InlineJavaPerlCaller.java:83) at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaPerlCaller.eval(InlineJavaPerlCaller.java:121) at org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaPerlCaller.eval(InlineJavaPerlCaller.java:116) at HelloWorld.getArray(HelloWorld.java:38) at HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:63)