I have been recently working on some code that processes data returned from a third party function to generate reports. I wanted to make sure that the data I have been reciving is correct and so have used Data::Dumper to print it so I can check. My problem however is that whilst running the following call to show me the whole object returned:- 
print Data::Dumper->Dump([$sb]);

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produces 
$VAR1 = bless( [
                 '100',
                 [
                   [
                     '2593140',
                     '2766860',
                     '0',
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     '0UI38923424239K',
                     '2002-01-10 09:16:50',
                     '1500',
                     'None Given',
                     '£',
                     'GBP'
                   ],
                   [
                     '2513902',
                     '2766861',
                     '1',
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     'LKJS3892342423Y5S',
                     '2002-01-10 09:16:54',
                     '1500',
                     'None Given',
                     '£',
                     'GBP'
                   ],
                   [
                     '2574165',
                     '2766862',
                     '0',
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     undef,
                     '0ASJH2782121S',
                     '2002-01-10 09:16:57',
                     '1500',
                     'None Given',
                     '£',
                     'GBP'
                   ],

                   ........etc

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when I try and just display the subset of that data (ie just the bit that actualy interests me :- 
 
print Data::Dumper->Dump($sb->[1]);

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all I get is 
$VAR1 = [
          '2593140',
          '2766860',
          '0',
          undef,
          undef,
          undef,
          undef,
          '0UI38923424239K',
          '2002-01-10 09:16:50',
          '1500',
          'None Given',
          '£',
          'GBP'
        ];

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ie I dont seem to be able to access all the rest.
On top of that if I go 
print Data::Dumper->Dump($sb->[1]->[$anumber]);

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where $anumber is 1,2,3,4 etc I get the first element of each of the successive arrays from the original
Its not been a huge problem as dumping the entire object showed me that all the data was indeed there. But I would like to know why Data::Dumper didn't produce the results I was expecting. Any ideas?

---If it doesn't fit use a bigger hammer

In reply to Data::Dumper Dilema by vagnerr

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