help accessing array of array references

[ssmith001]

I have an array of arrays and here are some of the elements I dumped using Dumper:

$VAR6 = [
'B400',
'A1199P1394',
'A'
];
$VAR7 = [
'B400',
'A1205G2425',
'A'
];
$VAR8 = [
'B400',
'A1205Z1534',
'C'
];
$VAR9 = [
'B400',
'A3280F9366',
'B'

What I am trying to do in the code below is check the 3rd element in the array but I can't seem to figure out how to access this particular one. Can someone help me?

for my $i ( 0 .. $#item_array ) 
{ 
  my $abc = [ @{$item_array[$i]} ];
	    
  if ( $abc eq 'A' ) 
  {
    LogMsg("   [ @{$item_array[$i]} ]   This is an A item");
  } 
  else 
  {
    LogMsg("   [ @{$item_array[$i]} ]   This is a BCE item");
  }
}

 

[KevinADC]

Use dereferencing:

for my $i ( 0 .. $#item_array )
{
  my $abc = [ @{$item_array[$i]} ];
        
  if ( [b]$abc->[2][/b] eq 'A' )
  {
    LogMsg("   [ @{$item_array[$i]} ]   This is an A item");
  }
  else
  {
    LogMsg("   [ @{$item_array[$i]} ]   This is a BCE item");
  }
}

 

[ssmith001]

Thanks Kevin, you nailed it once again!

 

[ssmith001]

Kevin, one last thing...

now I get a bunch of these warnings popping up: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at promo.pl line 420

 

[ssmith001]

never mind, I figured it out somehow.

 

[KevinADC]

>> never mind, I figured it out somehow.