use Data::Dump qw/pp/; @array = (10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 7); @a = sort {$a <=> $b} @array; $first = $last = shift @a; # init start push @a,"inf"; # infinity end for $now (@a) { unless ( $last+1 == $now ) { push @ranges,[$first,$last]; # todo: one element ranges $first=$now; } $last=$now; } pp @ranges;