Yes.

An array can ONLY contain scalar elements. A reference to an array IS a scalar, so that's how you get arrays of arrays. 

my @a = ( 1, 2, 3 );           # make an array
my $ra = \@a;                  # make a reference to @a
my $rb = [ 4, 5, 6 ];          # make a reference to an anonymous arra
+y
my @aoa = ( $ra, $rb );        # make an array of arrays

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You then can fetch $aoa[1][1] and get 5.

perldoc: perllol, perlreftut, perlref, etc. Also try Data::Dumper for ideas on how to visualize structures in Perl syntax.

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In reply to Re: Anonymous Reference??? by halley
in thread Anonymous Reference??? by awohld

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