I have the following two arrays:
@array1 = ("Member1\tMember2"......"Member1\tMember2);<br>
@array2 = (\@Member1, \@Member2, \@state_living, \@Membership_status, 
+\@member_since);

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@array1 is has two elements(Member1 and Member2 separated by tab). @array2 is a multidimensional array and has reference to arrays of Member1 and Member2, state_living, membership_status, and member since).

Member 1 and Member 2 are grouped together, and each one is a unique pair, but belong to different states (state_living). Number of states in states_living array could vary from 2 to n numbers.

I need to retrieve for each of the Member1 and Member2 combination present in @array1 , their state living, and membership status from the other @array2.

I want the output to look something like this:

Mem_status State_living_1 State_living_2 Year_Since
active        Member 1       Member 2       2001

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I hope I am clear. Any help/suggestions on how I can compare the two different arrays here and get the required information for each array1 from array2?

Thanks

In reply to how to compare elements of two multi-dimensional arrays by inhd

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