Right off the top I suspect you're making this more complicated than it needs to be. For example, unless you have a real need for the intermediate reference, you could do this: 

my @array01 = @{$array_references[0]};
...
my @array10 = @{$array_references[9]};

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Taking that a step further (and this is making some assumptions since you don't show how @array_references is initialized) you might use a hash for your "master" list: 
my %array_references;
for ( 1 .. 10 ) {
    my $array_name = sprintf("array_%02d",$_);
    $array_references{$array_name} = [];
}

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Then you could simply use @{$array_references{array_01}}[$index] to access the elements. Taking that even further, you probably don't need to access as arrays at all but could be using reference notation instead: $array_references{array_01}->[$index].

Better names could also help. :)

Update: If in fact you have a need for array names to actually be @array_01, @array_02, etc, then storing them in a hash allows you to compute the name you need and access it more easily as a hash key.

It helps to remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.

In reply to Re: initializing multiple arrays by boftx
in thread initializing multiple arrays by mrc

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