#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %hash = ( file1 => { foo => 4, bar => 6, baz => 4, quux => 8, quuux => 6, quuuux => 0, }, file2 => { foo => 4, bar => 8, baz => 4, quux => 8, quuux => 5, quuuux => 0, }, file3 => { foo => 8, bar => 0, baz => 5, quux => 8, quuux => 5, quuuux => 3, }, ); my %columns = map { $_ => 1 } map keys %{ $hash{$_} }, keys %hash; my @files = qw/file1 file2 file3/; for my $column (keys %columns) { print $column, "\t", $hash{$files[0]}{$column}; for my $i (1 .. $#files) { my ($this, $previous) = map $hash{ $files[$_] }{$column}, $i, $i - 1; print "\t", $this; my $change = '-'; if ($previous) { $change = sprintf "%d%%", 100 * ($this - $previous) / $previous; } print "\t$change"; } print "\n"; } #### bar 6 8 33% 0 -100% baz 4 4 0% 5 25% quuux 6 5 -16% 5 0% quux 8 8 0% 8 0% foo 4 4 0% 8 100% quuuux 0 0 - 3 -