#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @a=(1,1,2,3,4,4,8,8); my @b=(3,4,3,5,6,7,9,10); my $hoh={}; for ( 0 .. $#a){ $hoh->{$a[$_]}->{$b[$_]}++; $hoh->{$b[$_]}->{$a[$_]}++; } sub recursive { my ($hoh, $key, $path, @vals) =@_; for ( grep { $_ ne $key } @vals){ next if exists($path->{$_}); $hoh->{$key}->{$_}++; $path->{$_}++; recursive($hoh, $key, $path, keys %{$hoh->{$_}} ); } } for (sort {$a <=> $b}keys %$hoh){ recursive($hoh, $_, {}, keys %{$hoh->{$_}} ); } #print Dumper $hoh; for (sort {$a <=> $b}keys %$hoh){ print "$_=" , join(",", keys %{$hoh->{$_}}), "\n"; } __DATA__ this prints ... 1=6,4,3,7,2,5 2=6,4,1,3,7,5 3=6,4,1,7,2,5 4=6,1,3,7,2,5 5=6,1,4,3,7,2 6=1,4,3,7,2,5 7=6,1,4,3,2,5 8=10,9 9=8,10 10=8,9