c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dumper -le "my @source = qw(a b c foo bar baz fee fie foe); ;; my @Array_of_ALL_Vals; ;; for my $iloop (0 .. 3){ my @Array_Vals; @Array_Vals = @source[ 0 .. rand @source ]; push @Array_of_ALL_Vals,\@Array_Vals; print Dumper \@Array_of_ALL_Vals; } ;; print '-----------'; print Dumper \@Array_of_ALL_Vals; " $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar' ] ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ] ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo' ] ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'fee' ] ]; ----------- $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'fee' ] ];