Just move the my %counts and the print of %counts into into the first foreach:

use strict; use warnings; my @site1 = qw( AATKKM AKTKKM ); my @site2 = qw( GGGGGG HHHHHH ); my $site1; my $site2; foreach $site1 (@site1) { my @site1_parts = split(//, $site1); my %counts; foreach $site2 (@site2) { my @site2_parts = split(//, $site2); my $i = @site1_parts; $counts{$site1_parts[$i].$site2_parts[$i]}++ while ($i--); } print($_, ': ', $counts{$_}, $/) foreach (sort keys %counts); print($/); } __END__ output ====== AG: 2 AH: 2 KG: 2 KH: 2 MG: 1 MH: 1 TG: 1 TH: 1 AG: 1 AH: 1 KG: 3 KH: 3 MG: 1 MH: 1 TG: 1 TH: 1

I got rid of MapCar since it wasn't needed. (Yeah, I know I'm the one who introduced MapCar in the first place.) I also switched to data that better illustrates the results.

If you don't want to discard the previous counts before the loops is over, you can use an AoH:

use strict; use warnings; my @site1 = qw( AATKKM AKTKKM ); my @site2 = qw( GGGGGG HHHHHH ); my $site1; my $site2; my @count_collection; foreach $site1 (@site1) { my @site1_parts = split(//, $site1); my %counts; foreach $site2 (@site2) { my @site2_parts = split(//, $site2); my $i = @site1_parts; $counts{$site1_parts[$i].$site2_parts[$i]}++ while ($i--); } push(@count_collection, \%counts); } foreach (@count_collection) { my $counts = $_; print($_, ': ', $counts->{$_}, $/) foreach (sort keys %$counts); print($/); } __END__ output ====== AG: 2 AH: 2 KG: 2 KH: 2 MG: 1 MH: 1 TG: 1 TH: 1 AG: 1 AH: 1 KG: 3 KH: 3 MG: 1 MH: 1 TG: 1 TH: 1

In reply to Re: a bit more help with pairwise comparisons between strings in arrays. by ikegami
in thread a bit more help with pairwise comparisons between strings in arrays. by replicant4

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