use strict; use warnings; my %hash; for my $i ( 1 .. 5 ) { for my $k ( 0 .. 4 ) { ${ $hash{ 'array' . $i } }[$k] = $i**$k; } } print "$_: @{ $hash{ $_ } }\n" for sort keys %hash; #### array1: 1 1 1 1 1 array2: 1 2 4 8 16 array3: 1 3 9 27 81 array4: 1 4 16 64 256 array5: 1 5 25 125 625