my @tmpl_array = ( urlloopA => [ 'Home' => '/', 'Icons' => '/icons/', 'Sitedocs' => '/doc/', ], urlloopB => [ 'Cisco' => 'http://www.cisco.com/', 'CPAN' => 'http://search.cpan.org/', 'Google' => 'http://www.google.com/', 'Perl Monks' => 'http://www.perlmonks.org/', ], ); for (my $i = 0; $i < $#tmpl_array; $i+=2) { my($loop, $aref) = @tmpl_array[$i, $i+1]; my @vars; for (my $j = 0; $j < $#{$aref}; $j+=2) { my($name, $url) = @{$aref}[$j, $j+1]; push @vars, { name => $name, url => $url }; } $template->param($loop, [ @vars ]); }