The site proved useful, i found my answer in just under a minute, i'll paste it here should others have the same question:
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Array Element Access You can access individual elements of an array using the subscript operator []. Since the result of accessing a single element of an array is a scalar, when you use the subscript operator you also use a $ in front of the array name instead of a @. This seems confusing at first, but keep in mind that the result of accessing an array element is a scalar. Just like in C/C++, perl arrays start with a subscript of 0 - so the first element in the array @names is $names[0] and $names[1] is the second element in the array.
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