Thanks for the encouragement Marshall

You have partly anticipated my next hurdle

I am ok with using foreach to loop through all the elements but am struggling with returning particular values....for example if I only wanted to return the first value of @another_compass into a new array. i.e.

NW
W
SW

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have tried a number of things similar to this...

my @first_value = ();
for my $compass_row (@another_compass)
        {
        push (@first_value, shift);
        }

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but obviously not correct, I used a split in place of shift with a slightly different problem so I thought shift would work. Although i assume you would need a different solution if the second value was required. Any pointers will be appreciated.

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