C:\temp>perl 1.pl $VAR1 = [ 'MEASURE', 'CNT' ]; $VAR1 = [ [ '# PLTADM Queries (ex batch) ', '0' ] ]; A size:0 B size:2 B: 0 : 0 : # PLTADM Queries (ex batch) B: 0 : 1 : 0