my @message; my $input = 10; for my $index ( 0..$input-1 ) { $message[$index][0] = "element 0"; $message[$index][1] = 42; } print "The second array has ", scalar( @{ $message[1] } ), " elements\n"; print "They are:\n"; for my $index ( 0..$#{ $message[1] } ) { print "\t", $message[$index][1], "\t", } print "\t", $message[$index][1], "\t", $message[$index][0] ,"\n";