++NetWallah.

corenth: You can visualise what NetWallah said by writing your own display loop:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @a = (1, 2, 3, 4, 6);
my $y = increment(increment(\@a));

for my $j (@$y)
{
    print "[\n";

    for my $k (@$j)
    {
        print "    $k: @$k\n";
    }

    print "]\n";
}

sub increment
...

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Output:

14:12 >perl 1896_SoPW.pl
[
    ARRAY(0x1db5610): 1 2
    ARRAY(0x1d284d8): 2 3
]
[
    ARRAY(0x1d284d8): 2 3
    ARRAY(0x1d28640): 3 4
]
[
    ARRAY(0x1d28640): 3 4
    ARRAY(0x1d28a00): 4 6
]

14:12 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^2: Array of Arrays: why is "$VAR1->[0][1]" and the like embedded within? by Athanasius
in thread Array of Arrays: why is "$VAR1->[0][1]" and the like embedded within? by corenth

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