use warnings; use strict; my @charges = qw/ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 ch8 ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch1 ch2 ch6 ch7 ch4 ch3 ch9 ch2 ch4/; my %bundle1 = map { $_ => 0 } qw(ch3 ch4 ch6); my %b = %bundle1; my @final; my @del; for (@charges) { if (exists $bundle1{$_}) { delete $b{$_}; if (!keys %b) { # seen them all, so reset %b = %bundle1; @del = (); push@final,'chx'; } else { # keep it, in case not all are seen push@del,$_; } } else { push@final,$_; } } push@final,@del; # add back any remainders print "@final\n"; __OUTPUT__ ch1 ch2 ch5 chx ch7 ch8 ch1 ch2 ch5 ch1 ch2 chx ch7 ch9 ch2 ch4 ch3 ch4