To get a single SV out of an ndarray, use $pdl->at($offset1, ...)

Thanks - that's what I was looking for.

By the way, this is as marioroy has been doing with some of your test scripts

The only thing I noticed was marioroy's use of $pdl->at.(0) which returned a 15-significant-decimal-digit representation of the value - not what I was looking for: 
C:\>perl -MPDL -MDevel::Peek -le "$pdl = random(); Dump $pdl->at.(0);"
SV = PV(0x1c544eeb140) at 0x1c544eeaa10
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x1c5474d1ca0 "0.2684813620074430"\0
  CUR = 18
  LEN = 20

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That construct threw me a bit, and I'm way too dense to realize that all I needed to do was to remove the ".": 
C:\>perl -MPDL -MDevel::Peek -le "$pdl = random(); Dump $pdl->at(0);"
SV = NV(0x1426b33a8f0) at 0x1426b33a908
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,NOK,pNOK)
  NV = 0.32972986684150651

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Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^14: PDL and srand puzzle by syphilis
in thread PDL and srand puzzle by syphilis

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