#/usr/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; ## Populating the Arrays with some values. @array1 = ( 1,2,3,4 ) ; @array2 = ( 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four' ); ## Initialise the index for the array $i = 0; ## Join the two array 'array1', 'array2' in a single array named 'array' map { $array[$i][0] = $array1[$i] ; $array[$i][1] = $array2[$i]; $i++ } @array1 ; print Dumper @array;