You are talking about a hash (otherwise known as an associative array). Here's an example of the Perlish way to construct an associative array similar to what you're depicting. 

use Data::Dumper;
my %world = ( 'fruits' => { 
                            'p' => 'peach',
                            'g' => 'grapes',
                          }
              'birds'  => { 
                            'p' => 'parrot',
                            'c' => 'crow'
                          }
             );

print Dumper \%world;
print "Accessing individual elements:\n";
print $world{'fruits'}{'p'}, "\n";
print $world{'birds'}{'c'}, "\n";

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Please refer to perldata and perlintro for starters, to learn about hashes. For multidimensional structures you'll need to read perlreftut, perllol, and perlref. Enjoy! It's good stuff.


Dave

In reply to Re: multi dimension array by davido
in thread multi dimension array by shilpam

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