Hello,

Please, next time, try to post only the code that exposes your problem.

The problem that you directed us to is in the following 

sub score_count {
    my @arr = shift;
    my $total = 0;
    foreach my $score (@arr) {
      print "@$score ";
    $total += @$score;
    }
    print "$total\n";
    return $total;
}

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Although there are other issues, lets look at this code. @arr is being fed a single element (via the shift command).

This makes @arr an array of an array

Your code print @$score I believe misled you to believe that use @$score will give you all the values one at a time. It does only because print processes an array in list mode.

In the next line, the code $total += @$score; processes the array in SCALAR context, which will return the TOTAL number of elements in your array (which is 60), NOT the sum of each value.

What you need is: 

    foreach my $score (@arr) {
      foreach my $i (@$score) {
          $total += $i;
      }
    }

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Or, better yet (notice $arr instead of @arr): 
sub score_count {
    my $arr = shift;
    my $total = 0;
    foreach my $score (@$arr) {
        $total+= $score;
    }
    print "total: $total\n";
    return $total;
}

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In reply to Re: 2d Array - making an array for the column then adding the values by Sandy
in thread 2d Array - making an array for the column then adding the values by hansoffate

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