in reply to Printing reference

You showed no effort on your part. What have you tried and found not to work?

sub process { my ( $ref ) = @_; for my $row ( @$ref ) { for my $elem( @$row ) { print "'$elem' "; } print "\n"; } } my @data = ( [ qw( a b c d e) ], [ qw( L M N ) ], [ qw( 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 ) ], ); process \@data;

Perl Best Practices recommends using brackets when conjoining sigils ... @{ $ref } ... which I agree with when the expression is at all complicated. When it is as simple as in this case, however, I think it's straightforward enough -> The data stored in $ref is really an array, so please iterate over the elements.

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.