#!/usr/bin/perl # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1230807 use strict; use warnings; my @array1 = qw(host1 host2 host3); my @array2 = qw(ip1 ip2 ip3); my %ip2host; @ip2host{@array2} = @array1; print "$_ $ip2host{$_}\n" for @array2;