my @column_names = ('col1', 'col2','col3'); my @values = ('val1','val2','val3','val4','val5','val6'); ------------ # output: col1 val1 val4 col2 val2 val5 col3 val3 val6 #### my $c2 = @column_names; for (my $i=0; $i<@column_names;$i++) { print qq($column_names[$i]); } for (my $i=0; $i<@values; $i+=$c2) { print "$values[$i]\n"; } print qq();