> Is there a way that the "empty fields" , as i call them can be initialized to undef.

no, as I told you "it has to be explicitly inserted".

[1,2,3, undef, 5,6,7, undef ,9 ]

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the only way to facilitate things is to define your own input string syntax:

Like a sub row() which returns the above from a "simplified" list row(qw(1 2 3 . 5 6 7 . 9))

Or alternatively to parse() a multiline-string representing a matrix, like

$AoA = parse <<'__matrix__';
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 . 5 6 7 . 9 
1 2 3 . 5 6 7 . 9  
__matrix__

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YMMV according to your real problem.

> In my opinion this should be the case.

It's a feature of Perl, other stuff would break in this "case", sorry!

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

PS: Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Re^2: Perl reference array by LanX
in thread Perl reference array by teun-arno

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