I have use Perl in the past but I am by no means a proficient user. I have a small script which reads in a file and loads two multidimensional arrays. The problem I am having is that when I try to load an array element I get the following error: Can't use string ("ClearCase0102201907") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at test.pl line 67. The following is a snippet of the code where the error occurs. above the snippet is where I initialize my variables and below is where I try to print the arrays. When I don't use strict it runs however the printout of the array is wrong. I may need help on why however, I am hoping that it is because I did not fix this error. I placed multiple pound signs (e.g. #########) at the end of the line for the error. I believe it is actually complaining about the line above. 

my $mtab;
my $mtab1;
my @mtab = ();
my @mtab1 = ();
open (TMP2, ">C:\\SCCI\\scci_clearcase\\temp2_out\.txt");
open (TMP3, "<C:\\SCCI\\scci_clearcase\\temp3_out\.txt");
#
# Load Metrics table
#
while ($str = <TMP3>) {
    $product="";
    $date="";
    $hour="";
    $user="";
    $day="";
    $dum1="";
    $dum2="";
    $i=0;
    $j=0;
    $k=0;
    $l=0;
    chomp $str;
    ($dum1,$dum2) = split(/ /,$str,2);
    ($i,$j,$k,$l) = split(/,/,$dum1,4);
    ($product,$date,$hour,$user)=split(/,/,$dum2,4);
    $tmpval=$product.$date.$hour;
    if ($product ne $old_product) {
        $old_product = $product;
        $ii++;
        $jj = -1;
    }
    $jj++;
    $mtab1[$ii]=$tmpval;
    $mtab1[$ii][$jj]=$user;   ############# This is the line reference
+d for the error

    print TMP2 "ii = $ii \t jj = $jj mtab product = $mtab1[$ii] \t mta
+b user = $mtab1[$ii][$jj]\n";
    $mtab[$i]=$product;
    $mtab[$i][$j]=$date;
    $mtab[$i][$j][$k]=$hour;
    $mtab[$i][$j][$k][$l]=$user;
    print TMP2 "$i, $j, $k, $l  user = $user mtab = $mtab[$i][$j][$k][
+$l]\n";
    
}

close(TMP3);

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