Ok. Well @table = @data[1..$height]; may not be doing what you expect.
If you are unsure about your data structures or are just curious, then you can use Data::Dumper 
use Data::Dumper;
$datafile = 'testdata.txt';
chomp $datafile;

open (INPUT, $datafile) || die ("Unable to open $datafile");
@data = <INPUT>;
close INPUT;
    
@dim = split(/\,/, $data[0]);
$width = $dim[0];
$height = $dim[1];

@table = @data[1..$height];
print Dumper(@table); die;

for($row = 0; $row < $height; $row++) {
    for($col = 0; $col < $width; $col++) {
        $myString = $myString.$table[$row][$col];
    }

    $myString ="";  
}

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@table is not a multi-dimensional array (because of the way you tried to create it). Therefore, there is no such
$table[$row][$col]. Each element of @data is a single line of $datafile. @table = @data[1..$height]; is merely creating a new array which contains the same elements as @data.

I don't know exactly know what you are trying to do, but to get access to each byte of each element/row in @table, you can use substr(). You don't need a 2-dimensional array for that:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $datafile = $ARGV[0] || die "File to open was not provided!";
my @data;
open (DATA_FILE, '<', $datafile) || die ("Unable to open $datafile");
    @data = <DATA_FILE>;
close(DATA_FILE);
    
my @dim = split /\,/, $data[0];
my $width = $dim[0];
my $height = $dim[1];

my @table;
push (@table, @data[1..$height]);

my $myString ='';
for(my $row = 0; $row < $height; $row++) {
    for(my $col = 0; $col < $width; $col++) {
        $myString .= substr($table[$row], $col, 1);
    }
    $myString ="";  
}

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In reply to Re^3: 2 dimensional array by kabeldag
in thread 2 dimensional array by mountain_drew

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