use strict; use warnings; my @array1 = qw(13470660 13471850 14028274 14028286); my @array2 = qw(14028145 14028286 13476691 13471850); my (%keys, $key, @dupes); for (0..$#array1) { if ($array1[$_] < $array2[$_]) { $key = "$array1[$_] $array2[$_]"; } else { $key = "$array2[$_] $array1[$_]"; } if ($keys{$key}++ == 1) { splice(@array1, $_, 1); splice(@array2, $_, 1); push(@dupes, $key); } } for (0..$#array1) { print "$array2[$_] $array1[$_]\n"; } print "\n$_ ".($keys{$_}-1) for (@dupes);