#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $aref = [1, 7, 6, 2, 2, 7, 1, 2, 6, 99, 99, 7, 88, 7, 6, 1, 2, 3]; my (@temp, @result); my $target_ref = \@result; for my $num (@$aref) { $target_ref = \@temp if $num == 6; push @$target_ref, $num; $target_ref = \@result, @temp = () if $num == 7; } push @result, @temp; print Dumper \@result;