#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my @data = ( # note parens not square brackets '17-02-2005','18-02-2005','19-02-2005', '20-02-2005','21-02-2005','22-02-2005', '23-02-2005','24-02-2005' ); my %labels = ( 'C' => [0,0,0,0,7,0,0,2], 'A' => [0,0,0,0,0,0,5,4], 'B' => [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] ); foreach my $key (sort {$a cmp $b} keys %labels) { push @data, $labels{$key}; } use Data::Dumper; print Dumper @data; __END__ $VAR1 = '17-02-2005'; $VAR2 = '18-02-2005'; $VAR3 = '19-02-2005'; $VAR4 = '20-02-2005'; $VAR5 = '21-02-2005'; $VAR6 = '22-02-2005'; $VAR7 = '23-02-2005'; $VAR8 = '24-02-2005'; $VAR9 = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 4 ]; $VAR10 = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]; $VAR11 = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 2 ];