Ok, before you click that -- button, cut me some slack here, I'm still new.

I'm misunderstanding Data::Dumper's output apparently, because I'm unable to look at an array reference properly. I've read the docs, but maybe I'm just too tired to see what's wrong. If someone could quickly point out my mistake, I'd be forever grateful.

I'm doing this:
    use Data::Dumper;  
    print Dumper($data);

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And getting back this:
$VAR1 = [
          '0.001915',
          '0.000000',
          '0.007453',
          '0.000000'
        ];

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So why does this 
print $data[0];

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return nothing? Shouldn't it return '0.001915'??

Thanks in advance. Sorry if this is Yet Another Ignorant Perl Question.
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In reply to Sad newbie question about Data::Dumper and array references.. by Clownburner

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