I was just going to mention that "%-20s" is probably more what was wanted than "%20s" (yes, annoying how printf defaults to right-justifaction for non-numeric formats). Then I noticed no double underlines and that you assume that all of the arrays have the same number of elements. Finally, I went with "%-19s" which fits nicely on screens that are a multiple of 20 characters wide. 

my @keys= sort keys %TOP;
my $format= join( " ", ("%-19s") x @keys ) . "\n";
printf $format, @keys;
printf $format, map { "=" x length($_) } @keys;
my $line= 0;
while(  grep { $line <= $#{$TOP{$_}} } @keys  ) {
    printf $format, map { def($TOP{$_}[$line]) } @keys;
    $line++;
}
sub def {
    return defined $_[0] ? $_[0] : def($_[1],"");
}

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        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Structured Printing of Hash of Arrays by tye
in thread Structured Printing of Hash of Arrays by Limo

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