# the program my %hash; my @arr; %hash = ( 'one' => [1], 'two' => [2,2], 'three' => [3,3,3], ); print "$hash{one}[0]\n"; print "$hash{two}[0]\n"; print "$hash{three}[0]\n"; $size = length $hash{one}; print ("size=$size\n"); $size = length $hash{two}; print ("size=$size\n"); print "all done\n"; % perl arrays.pl 1 2 3 size=16 size=16 all done