my @shape = ("round", "square", "polygon"); my @colour = ("red", "salmon", "purple" ); my @tag ; for my $j ( 0..2 ) { if ( ($shape[$j] eq "round") && ($colour[$j] eq "red") ) {$tag[$j]=1;} else {$tag[$j]=0;} print "$shape[$j] $colour[$j] $tag[$j]\n"; }