note toolic This works: <c> use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; sub get_data { my @AoA; @AoA = ( [(1, 2)], [(3, 4)], ); #print Dumper(\@AoA); return \@AoA; } my $alldata = get_data(); print Dumper($alldata); __END__ $VAR1 = [ [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ] ]; </c> <ul> <li>[doc://perldsc] <li>[http://sscce.org] </ul> 1007775 1007775