in reply to Re^4: Using an array element as a loop iterator
in thread Using an array element as a loop iterator

It sounds as if you might want something like Algorithm::Loops::NestedLoops (among many similar on CPAN):

>perl -wMstrict -le "my $number = 99; my $letter = 'Z'; my $word = 'zot'; ;; my @words= qw(foo bar); ;; for my $number (1 .. 3) { for my $letter (qw(A B C)) { for my $word (@words) { do_something_with($number, $letter, $word); } } } ;; print qq{post-loop: '$number' '$letter' '$word' \n} ;; sub do_something_with { my (@args) = @_; ;; print qq{@args}; } ;; ;; use Algorithm::Loops qw(NestedLoops); ;; print qq{using NestedLoops:}; NestedLoops [ [ 1 .. 3 ], [ qw(A B C) ], \@words, ], \&do_something_with ; " 1 A foo 1 A bar 1 B foo 1 B bar 1 C foo 1 C bar 2 A foo 2 A bar 2 B foo 2 B bar 2 C foo 2 C bar 3 A foo 3 A bar 3 B foo 3 B bar 3 C foo 3 C bar post-loop: '99' 'Z' 'zot' using NestedLoops: 1 A foo 1 A bar 1 B foo 1 B bar 1 C foo 1 C bar 2 A foo 2 A bar 2 B foo 2 B bar 2 C foo 2 C bar 3 A foo 3 A bar 3 B foo 3 B bar 3 C foo 3 C bar

With this approach it's easy to add arrays to arbitrary depth, albeit with attendant exponential explosion!

Update: Changed example code to show  \@words taking reference to array.