Hi PerlMonks!

Last night I was writing a script and I was stumped by its behaviour... Basically, it contains a data object which is a hash containing a multidimensional array (a 2n one)...

So I might have data like this: @{$self->{_mydata}[2][3]} = "John";

In one of my methods, when I print this out, it gives my the correct answer:

print "My name is @{$self->{_mydata}[2][3]}\n";
Output: My name is John

However, when I try to evaluate it, It doesn't work: 

if ((@{$self->{_mydata}[2][3]}) eq "John")
  {
  print "My name is @{$self->{_mydata}[2][3]}\n";
  }

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The above code won't print anything... Why isn't this working? Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks Fellow Monks..!

In reply to Evaluating Multidimensional Arrays and References by mr_dont

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