note Anonymous Monk This notion of "a reference" ("arrayref" is slang for "a reference to an array," etc.) is one of the most-important concepts in Perl. A reference is a single value ... what's called a "scalar" ... yet it can <i>refer to</i> anything at all. For example, even though arrays are one-dimensional, every slot in it <i>could</i> consist of a reference to another array, thus creating a <i>n-</i>dimensional array, and so on. "Contexts" (array, hash, scalar, etc.), as denoted by characters "@", "$", "%" and so on, are also a very important idea. 998332 998332 8