Do we have to initialise undef'd items one to four, when creating item five does that anyway? 
$matrix[$_][4]=undef for(0..4);

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Which leads to the next logical question, why do we need to do this at all? The creation of the highest-index item in the array creates all lower-index undefs anyway, and if you try to get item and it's not there, the array's going to return an undef anyway.

So the quickest way to do it is not do it at all.


($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Initializing multidimensional arrays by Cody Pendant
in thread Initializing multidimensional arrays by pearle

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