in reply to Re^3: How to return a two dimensional array from a function in Perl?
in thread How to return a two dimensional array from a function in Perl?

> Super simple example below, did not even put in strict and warnings.

But using strict and warnings would have told you what's wrong.

These are two different variables:

$LON = (); 
$LON[0][0] = "Tim";

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Two solutions, either

my $LON ;             # scalar is array  ref
$LON->[0][0] = "Tim";
...
return $LON;

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or 

my @LON;              # array 
$LON[0][0] = "Tim";
...
return \@LON;         # return ref

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See perldsc and perlref for more

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