it magically works after converting the C-style loops to Perl
Update: ... and strip the attempt at array initialization. I was wondering why the loops were having an effect but failed to notice I automatically fixed the array init. Ups.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print " Enter dimension : ";
my $n = <STDIN>;

$n--;

my $k = 1;

my @matrix;

for my $i (0..$n) {
    for my $j (0..$n) {
        $matrix[$i][$j]= $k++;
    }
}

print " the matrix : \n\n";

for my $i (0..$n) {
    for my $j (0..$n) {
        print "$matrix[$i][$j]  ";
    }
    print "\n";
}

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Output: 
% perl matrix.pl  
 Enter dimension : 5
 the matrix : 

1  2  3  4  5  
6  7  8  9  10  
11  12  13  14  15  
16  17  18  19  20  
21  22  23  24  25

In reply to Re: Multidimentioal array by Monk::Thomas
in thread Multidimentioal array by Subhrangshu Das

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