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here's a snippet that should help:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @arr = ( ['one','two','three','four'], ['first','second','third','fourth'], ['jim','bob','bill','sally'], ); print $arr[1]->[1]; # prints "second"
hope that helps.