c:\perl\perl>perl -de 0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> %x = ( 123, [ qw(one two three) ], 456, [ qw(four five six) ], 789, [ qw(seven eight nine) ] ) DB<2> x \%x 0 HASH(0x1d6c490) 123 => ARRAY(0x15d52a4) 0 'one' 1 'two' 2 'three' 456 => ARRAY(0x1d6c628) 0 'four' 1 'five' 2 'six' 789 => ARRAY(0x1d6c664) 0 'seven' 1 'eight' 2 'nine' DB<3> @x = ( { 1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three" }, { 4, "four", 5, "five", 6, "six" }, { 7, "seven", 8, "eight", 9, "nine" } ) DB<4> x @x 0 HASH(0x1d70b24) 1 => 'one' 2 => 'two' 3 => 'three' 1 HASH(0x1d97a78) 4 => 'four' 5 => 'five' 6 => 'six' 2 HASH(0x1d97ab4) 7 => 'seven' 8 => 'eight' 9 => 'nine' DB<5>