accessing a hash or array within another object

hello..

i have created a simple object consisting of a array, hash, and a scalar variable.

how do i insert a single element into the array. i have used classes in C++ so i would usually do something like this
object.array[elementNumber]="something";

how would i do something like this in perl?

thanks in advanced.

Can you give an example?

for instance if i wanted to access an array element within my perl object, it makes senrraye for me to type this.

$object->{arrayName[1]}

i would think that this calls the scalar element within object that occurs inside of the array arrayname

in C++ i would type this
object.arrayName[1]