Hello, I'm a fairly basic Perl user trying to troubleshoot a script that involves arrays-of-arrays. I think something is going wrong in the way I move information to and from the arrays-of-arrays, but I can't figure out what.

If I want to take one "row" of my array-of-arrays and copy it to a separate array, is this correct:
@SeparateArray = @{ MyAoA[$i] };

And if I want to do the opposite (copy my separate array into a row of my array-of-arrays), is this correct:
@{ $MyAoA[$i] } = [ @SeparateArray ];

Finally, if I want to copy an entire array-of-arrays (and not just have references to the first one), can I simply write:
@NewAoA = [ @OldAoA ];
or do I need to build a "for" loop to replace each component array separately, e.g.:
@{ $NewAoA[$i] } = @{ $OldAoA[$i] };

Thanks to anyone who can help lead me out of this bracket-maze!

In reply to Questions about using array-of-arrays by jep1978

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