#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Algorithm::Combinatorics 'subsets'; my @headers = split ' ', scalar ; my @data = map [split], ; my @subsets; for my $k (3, 4) { push @subsets, subsets([0 .. $#headers], $k); } for my $indices (@subsets) { my $count = 0; for my $aref (@data) { ++$count unless grep $_ eq '0', @$aref[ @$indices ]; } print "@headers[ @$indices ]\t$count\n"; } __DATA__ A B C D E 0 0 0 + 0 + 0 + + + 0 + + + + 0 0 + + 0 + + + + + 0 + + + + + 0 + + 0