Hi,

Just starting out in perl, was hoping someone can explain why this code from a tutorial isn't working...

 #!/usr/bin/perl
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 my @compass =
         {
        ["NW", "N", "NE"],
        ["W", "center", "E"],
        ["SW", "S", "SE"]
        };

 print $compass[0]->[1];

>Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at array_compass.pl line 4.
>Not an ARRAY reference at array_compass.pl line 11.

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using perl v5.12.1 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi on OpenSUSE.

Must be something simple but after a couple of hours searching, reading and trying different things still can't work it out??

Thanks

In reply to simple array question by tw

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