Here is another formulation for you using data from your OP. This makes a 2D array and then prints it. I tried to be straight-forward. Hope this is understandable to you. Pay attention to the code that prints each row of the 2D array. This type of thing occurs often. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @array;
$array[0]="0\n1\n2\n3\n";
$array[1]="4\n5\n6\n";
$array[2]="7\n8\n";
$array[3]="9\n";

my @twod_array;

my $i_col=0;

foreach my $col (@array)
{
   my $i_row = $i_col; #we go down a diagonal to right
   
   my @row_stuff = split (' ',$col);
   foreach my $ele (@row_stuff)
   {
      $twod_array[$i_row++][$i_col] = $ele;
   }
   $i_col++;
}

foreach my $row_ref (@twod_array)
{
   my $line = join ("\t", @$row_ref);
   print "$line\n";
}

=prints:
0
1    4
2    5    7
3    6    8    9
=cut

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Update: I thought I'd comment on this: split (' ',$col). This does not mean "split on the space character". This is a special case coded into Perl. This means "split on any sequence of white space characters". There are five: space,line feed,carriage return,tab,form feed. There is a difference in how leading white space is handled between that split and split (/\s+/,$col) which doesn't matter here and gets us a bit far afield.

In reply to Re: array in different columns by Marshall
in thread array in different columns by Muflone82

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