$ cat t.pl #/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @a = (1, 2, 3); print "Size of a: ", scalar(@a), "\n"; print Dumper(\@a),"\n"; my @b = [0, 1, 2]; print "Size of b: ", scalar(@b), "\n"; print Dumper(\@b),"\n"; print "Size of b[0]: ", scalar(@{$b[0]}), "\n"; print Dumper($b[0]),"\n";