my @A = ([0,1],[0,1,2,3,0],[1,2,3,4,1,1,1,11]); my $zeroes = scalar grep { $_ == 0 } @{$A[1]}; my $ones = scalar grep { $_ == 1 } @{$A[2]}; print "Scalar : ", scalar @A, "\n"; print "Last index: $#A\n"; print "Zeroes in second field: $zeroes\n"; print "Ones in third field: $ones\n";