As screamingeagle says, your question is a little vague. So let's make some assumptions: it would appear that you have an array of arrays with each inner array being one record. And when you say "Is there a way to create a row" it seems that you mean, "Is there a way to create a column..."

If I'm on the right track we want to look first at those individual records which are each an (anonymous) array. For inserting values into the middle of an array, you need to use splice(). But to add elements to the beginning or end of an array, the following are each quite sufficient: 

      @array = ($new, @array);        # new 1st element
   or @array = (@array, $new);        # new last element
   or @array = ($new, @array, $new2); # both

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In the case of an aoa (array of arrays), we need to be a little more tricky with things but the principle is the same: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Fudge up some sample data
my @records = (['Eagle', 'Bird', 'Feathers'],
               ['Moose', 'Mammal', 'Fur'],
               ['Adder', 'Snake', 'Skin']);

# Insert the record number column
@records = map { [$_, @{$records[$_]}] } (0..$#records);

# Show the result
print "@$_\n" for @records;

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If you like things a little more verbose and plain-spoken, you can substitute the following for the map line: 
for my $i (0..$#records) {
   @{$records[$i]} = ($i, @{$records[$i]});
}

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Hope this helps.

David

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In reply to Re: Want to add a ROW # field to an pre-existing array by dvergin
in thread Want to add a ROW # field to an pre-existing array by S_Shrum

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