#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump; my @A = qw{H1 H2 H3 H4}; my @B = 1 .. 10; my %result; my $reverse = 0; while (@B) { build_hash(\%result, \@A, \@B, $reverse); $reverse ^= 1; } dd \%result; sub build_hash { my ($result, $A, $B, $reverse) = @_; my @keys = @$B >= @$A ? @$A : @$A[0 .. $#$B]; my @values; if ($reverse) { unshift @values, shift @$B for (0 .. $#keys); } else { push @values, shift @$B for (0 .. $#keys); } push @{$result->{$keys[$_]}}, $values[$_] for 0 .. $#keys; }