To answer the subject - you have a number of syntactical and semantic errors here.

First, you probably want () rather than {} on the @c and @d initialisation lines: 

  my @c = ( 22, 44, 55 );
  my @d = ( 'yy', 'tt' );
# or
  my @d = qw(yy tt);

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This will create a list rather than a reference to a hash.

Second, your assignments - an array, such as @b, can only hold scalars - not other arrays. That said, a reference to an array is a scalar. Thus, you probably want: 

  $b[0] = \@c; # hold a reference to @c.
  $b[1] = \@d;

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However, once you do that, you need to dereference it when you want to copy it into @e. 
  my @e = @{$b[1]};

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What you have right now creates arrays @c and @d, both of which contain a single element: a reference to a hash (again, a reference is a scalar of some type, thus can be in an array). Then you assign the "scalar" value of the array into $b[1] - the scalar value of an array is the length of the array (in this case, there's only one value in the array - the reference to the hash), and from there, you copy that 1 to @e as a single element.

Hope that helps.

In reply to Re: What do I do wrong? I want an array of arrays by Tanktalus
in thread What do I do wrong? I want an array of arrays by pcouderc

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