Thank you all for your comments. As an extension to this problem, I would also like to implement the following:

Count the number of occurences in the grep search where only those 'rows' are selected where the number of elements that exceed a particular value are defined. For eg, consider: 
@arr = (
    [ 'A' , 1,  0,  5,  6 ],
    [ 'B' , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ],
    [ 'C' , 2 , 4  ,3  ,5 ],
    [ 'D' , 6 , 7 , 8  ,8 ],
    [ 'E' , 2 , 5 , 4 , 5 ],
    [ 'F' , 4 , 8 , 8  ,8 ],
    [ 'G' , 1 , 2 , 4,  5 ],
    [ 'H' , 1 , 4 , 5,  6 ]
);

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Now, I define the number of string matches to be equal to '2' and threshold value to be '8'. The output should only include the rows where the no. of occurences of the value '8' is twice or more. i.e 
__OUTPUT__
'D' , 6 , 7 , 8  ,8
'F' , 4 , 8 , 8  ,8

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Any idea on how to do this ?? Thank you very much !!!

In reply to Re: Simplest way to match/filter 2d array of values to search in perl by reaper9187
in thread Simplest way to match/filter 2d array of values to search in perl by reaper9187

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