#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array1 = (undef,20,20,19,20,undef,18,20); my @array2 = (undef,19,20,16,19,undef,20,undef,20); my @differences; my $top = $#array1 > $#array2 ? $#array1 : $#array2; for my $i (1 .. $top) { if (defined $array1[$i] and not defined $array2[$i]) { print "$i is in \@array1 but not \@array2\n"; } if (not defined $array1[$i] and defined $array2[$i]) { print "$i is in \@array2 but not \@array1\n"; } next unless defined $array1[$i] and defined $array2[$i]; $differences[$i] = $array1[$i] - $array2[$i]; print "$i ($array1[$i] - $array2[$i]) = $differences[$i]\n"; } print "\n", Dumper \@differences; __END__ 1 (20 - 19) = 1 2 (20 - 20) = 0 3 (19 - 16) = 3 4 (20 - 19) = 1 6 (18 - 20) = -2 7 is in @array1 but not @array2 8 is in @array2 but not @array1 $VAR1 = [ undef, 1, 0, 3, 1, undef, -2 ];