This example starts with the usual declarations.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my ($width, $height) = (3, 4);
my ($x, $y);
my (@array2d, @rows);

Now we create the “Y-Axis” array which will give us “height”. Here I set the value to “0”.

for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++)
{
	push @rows, "0";
}

Then we stuff the “rows” array into the main array. We’re creating an array of arrays.

for ($x = 0; $x < $width; $x++)
{
	push @array2d, [ @rows ];
}

That covers creating a two-dimensional array, so let’s test the output to make sure it’s working as expected.

$array2d[1][3] = "1";
print "Just set position (1,3) to value '1'\n";

for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++)
{
	for ($x = 0; $x < $width; $x++)
	{
		print "($x,$y) => $array2d[$x][$y]\n";
	}
}

Output:

Just set position (1,3) to value '1'
(0,0) => 0
(1,0) => 0
(2,0) => 0
(0,1) => 0
(1,1) => 0
(2,1) => 0
(0,2) => 0
(1,2) => 0
(2,2) => 0
(0,3) => 0
(1,3) => 1
(2,3) => 0