c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -le "use warnings; use strict; ;; use Data::Dumper; ;; my @ra = (100, 200, 300, 400); print Dumper \@ra; ;; @ra = map { [ $_+1, $_-1 ] } @ra; print Dumper \@ra; " $VAR1 = [ 100, 200, 300, 400 ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 101, 99 ], [ 201, 199 ], [ 301, 299 ], [ 401, 399 ] ];