A totally different way than already presented using tie: 
package Tie::Transpose;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub TIEHASH  {bless $_ [1] => $_ [0]}
sub FETCH    {my ($y, $x) = split /$;/ => $_ [1]; $_ [0] [$x] [$y]}
sub STORE    {die}


package main;

my $matrix = [[qw /ab cd ef/],
              [qw /gh ij kl/],
              [qw /mn op qr/],
              [qw /st uv wx/]];

tie my %trans => 'Tie::Transpose', $matrix;

print $trans {0, 0}, "\n";
print $trans {0, 1}, "\n";
print $trans {0, 2}, "\n";
print $trans {0, 3}, "\n";
__END__
ab
gh
mn
st

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You may want to work out some details before putting this in production code.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Transpose a bi-dimensional array by Abigail-II
in thread Transpose a bi-dimensional array by Anonymous Monk

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