Another approach using array slices.
c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"my @AoA = (
[ '00' .. '09' ],
[ '10' .. '19' ],
[ '20' .. '29' ],
[ '30' .. '39' ],
);
dd \@AoA;
;;
print join '-', @{ $AoA[1] }[ 3 .. 7 ];
print qq{@{ $AoA[2] }[ 2 .. 5 ]};
"
[
["00", "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09"],
[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
[20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29],
[30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39],
]
13-14-15-16-17
22 23 24 25
See also
Perl Data Structures Cookbook.
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