I have a data structure: 
{
    A   [
        [0] 0.298024546928301,
        [1] 0.310437805395979,
        [2] 0.362849758185986,
        [3] 0.300927220244308,
        [4] 0.30014286502788
    ],
    C   [
        [0] 0.200608102102475,
        [1] 0.274657378132592,
        [2] 0.192625882771276,
        [3] 0.162815453143259,
        [4] 0.158490613195079
    ],
    G   [
        [0] 0.217826947179901,
        [1] 0.132847137086947,
        [2] 0.206439273801657,
        [3] 0.188858010150455,
        [4] 0.253229183805833
    ],
    T   [
        [0] 0.28354040378812,
        [1] 0.282057679385473,
        [2] 0.238085085241806,
        [3] 0.347398866718639,
        [4] 0.288136438478111
    ]
}

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And I want to access all of the main values at once, and possibly store them in separate arrays, for example:

$arrayA = (0.298024546928301, 0.310437805395979, 0.362849758185986, 0.300927220244308, 0.30014286502788)

For the values attached to the 'A' key. I can do this either by iterating over the hash and pushing each value into an array or via:

$test{'A'}[0,1,2,3];

However the number of values is variable and i'd rather not have to specify 0,1,2,3,4,5 etc. but rather just a range based on a variable. However when I do:

$test{'A'}[0..$value];

or:

$test{'A'}[0..3];

It no longer works. Why is that and how can I accomplish this?

In reply to Extract hash values without a loop by TJCooper

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