This is really an odd question, particularly given your stipulation that there is only one row of data. If this is really a stipulation, I'd be inclined to say $search='crikey';, but there has to be more to your question. An array would be something like @albums = qw(1 grovvy crikey 10/10/2006) (assuming the simplest case, and that you don't really mean a hash). Then @albums[2] would be 'crikey'. update: fixed typo

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