I have a problem. I believe I have an array, @bigarray, like this: 
[
['123*jeff','tortoise','qwerty']
['456*john','parrot','azerty']
['789*jane','budgie','abcdef']
]

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I want to iterate over this to convert each row to: 
['123','jeff','tortoise','qwerty']

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Since I don't know how much additional data there is at the end*, I want to shift the data off, then unshift it back on. However, I am having great difficulty with shift; it doesn't seem to want to work. The splitting of the string is trivial; it's the shift/unshift which is being sticky. 
my @row = $bigarray[$count];
print "dumper1:".Dumper(@row);
my $item = shift @row;
print "dumper2:".Dumper($item);

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returns: 
dumper1:$VAR1 = [
          '<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/comp/mess
+age" title="Click to Subscribe" >Berronar\'s Salve</a>',
          'Heroic',
          '<em>Forgotten Realms Player\'s Guide</em>'
        ];
dumper2:$VAR1 = [
          '<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/comp/mess
+age" title="Click to Subscribe" >Berronar\'s Salve</a>',
          'Heroic',
          '<em>Forgotten Realms Player\'s Guide</em>'
        ];

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* Actually, I do, it varies.

In reply to Shifting of 2D array slices by Ryuchi

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