use warnings; use strict; my @array1 = (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 ); my @array2 = qw(blue white yellow blue white yellow blue white yellow); my $i = 0; while ($i < $#array1) { print "@array1[$i .. $i+2] "; print "@array2[$i .. $i+2]"; print "\n"; $i += 3; } __END__ 1 2 3 blue white yellow 1 2 3 blue white yellow 1 2 3 blue white yellow