in reply to avoiding the hash
Your playing with fire, this an intrinsicly dangerous thing, mainly because no concrete coupling will exist between the two separate arrays and so your data could easily get out of sequence. I think what you are looking for is :
1) An Array of Arrays (perls way of doing higher dimentional data structures)
2) A routine to take your pair of arrays and combine them (re-index) into the array of arrays.
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