Are you sure the logic is right? You would be pushing the same @tempList onto @bigList in each iteration of the loop. I would expect it more like this: 

<LOOP HERE>
{
     @tempList = <obtained in another part of the code>
     push(@bigList, @tempList);
}

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Also if you push it this way, you do not get a list of lists, Perl will flatten everything into one big list. You need to push a reference to a list onto the @BigList. If you re-use @tempList, then you also need to copy the array, otherwise you overwrite previous results. So I would propose something like: 

      push @BigList, [ @tempList ];

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which creates a reference to a copy of @tempList.

UPDATE: To access this structure, you would say $BigList[2]->[5] to access the third small list's sixth element (counting starts at zero).

In reply to Re: Getting individual lists from a bigger list by hdb
in thread Getting individual lists from a bigger list by vishi

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