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