recurse_lex(1); print "\n"; recurse_lex(2); print "\n"; recurse_lex(3); print "\n"; recurse_lex(4); print "\n"; sub recurse_lex { my $i = shift; my @array if 0; unshift @array, $i; print @array, "\n"; $i--; if ($i) { recurse_lex($i); } }