note philipbailey <p>It seems that you are trying to assign a list to array @compass. Lists are surrounded by brackets, or parentheses if you prefer that term: (). Instead, you have used braces, which in this case create a reference to an anonymous hash, hence the warning messages.</p> <p>So you need something more like this:</p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @compass = ( ["NW", "N", "NE"], ["W", "center", "E"], ["SW", "S", "SE"], ); print $compass[0]->[1]; </code> 880118 880118