Maybe this more succinctly captures the essence of what your code has to do? 

#! perl -slw
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $b = "abefcdghijklmn";
my @a;
@{ $a[ 0 ] } = ( 'start 0', unpack '(A1x)*', $b );
@{ $a[ 1 ] } = ( 'start 1', unpack '(xA1)*', $b );

print Dumper \@a;
__END__
C:\test>539664
$VAR1 = [
    [ 'start 0', 'a', 'e', 'c', 'g', 'i', 'k', 'm' ],
    [ 'start 1', 'b', 'f', 'd', 'h', 'j', 'l', 'n' ]
];

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In reply to Re: need to put values (from unpack) into array-ref by BrowserUk
in thread need to put values (from unpack) into array-ref by jeanluca

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