I'm working with an array of arrays of arrays. I chose this method to deal with information that is variable in occurrence in three aspects. My main array is called @MAIN. Inside of MAIN is seq_unique, inside of which is seq_position. This is such as too accomodate a sequence (biological data) that could occur numerous times in different manners within a single file. I have found that if I try to use 
print FILEHANDLE $MAIN[$seq_unique][$seq_position]\n";

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that it returns
SCALAR(0x126ac8)<BR>

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in the file addressed by FILEHANDLE
I'm expecting it to output the contents of that array there. What's wrong? The preceeding command to that is
$MAIN[$seq_unique][$seq_position] = \(@array[1 .. 21]);

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where @array has data from a line of an input file with information corresponding to the occurrence called $seq_position of the sequence called $seq_unique.
thanks!

In reply to Array output as SCALAR by MrMadScience

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