>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dumper; ;; my @kk = ( [ qw(aa bb cc dd) ], [ qw(kk jj ll mm) ], ); ;; my $i = 1; my $arrayref = $kk[ $i ]; ;; print Dumper $arrayref; print @$arrayref; " $VAR1 = [ 'kk', 'jj', 'll', 'mm' ]; kkjjllmm