A simple oneliner can fill your @AoA (and is a perfect excercise before going to sleep!)

The oneliner has a BEGIN block to copy @ARGV to the first row of the @AoA then use the current line number $. to choose wich column fill with the current $_ while the current starting column is governed by the $x which is increased every new file read (when eof is reached ARGV is also closed to reset $. ) The END block dump the @aoa in the desired format.

I've changed your sample files (for my sanity) so that file1.txt only contains numbers starting with 1 and so on.

perl -lnE "BEGIN{$aoa[0]=[@ARGV]}$aoa[$.][$x]=$_; if(eof){close ARGV;$
+x++}END{map{say join ',',@$_}@aoa}" file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

file1.txt,file2.txt,file3.txt
13,22,38
14,25,30
12,27,32
10,23,35
13,28,34
,25,32
,24,32
,,36

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In reply to Re: create array of arrays from multiple files -- another oneliner using $. by Discipulus
in thread create array of arrays from multiple files by Anonymous Monk

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