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For the area that you're currently investigating, I'd recommend "perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl".

When you take the next step into other, and more complex, data structures: "perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook".

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Later, when you start looking at modules beyond the core offering, you'll find meta::cpan to be invaluable.

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In reply to Re: Super newbie array question by kcott
in thread Super newbie array question by Anonymous Monk

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