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TIMTOWTDI, with a HoH... to get you started... though you might get problems with extremely large numbers of Ax;Ay relationships. Then, try to use bitmaps or a DB.
HTH

use strict;
use warnings;

my %A;
my ($max_row, $max_col) = (4,4);

# autovivify interesting rows/cols of %A
while (<DATA>) {
  warn("Line $.: cannot understand: $_") , next unless /A(\d+);A(\d+)/
+;
  my ($row, $col) = ($1,$2);
  $A{$row}{$col}++;
  $A{$col}{$row}++; # uncomment if relationship is not bidirectional
}

# print col. header
print "    ";
printf("A%-3d",$_) for (1..$max_col);
print "\n";

#print matrix A
for my $row (1 .. $max_row) {
  printf("A%-3d", $row);

  for my $col (1 .. $max_col) {
    printf(" %-3d",  exists $A{$row}{$col} ? "1" : "0" );
  }
  print "\n";
}


__DATA__
A1;A4
A2;A3
A2;A4
A1;A3
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Output:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
A1   0   0   1   1
A2   0   0   1   1
A3   1   1   0   0
A4   1   1   0   0
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Update: After OP clarified, that A1..A# are actually strings, here are some suggestions to modify the code above:

create an array to define output order, e.g. my @order = sort keys %A; / assumption: symmetric matrix
replace the (1 .. $max_...) parts by (@order)
update the printf(...) lines to cope with wider output and string- instead of int-type where necessary

Update2: Example plus annotations added.

use strict;
use warnings;

my %A;       # remembers pairing (x,y) as  $A{x}{y} and $A{y}{x}
my @order;   # set output order here or trust auto-generated @order be
+low
             # e.g. @order = qw(eel horse lion mule tiger);

# autovivify interesting pairings
while (<DATA>) {
  warn("Line $.: cannot understand: $_") , next unless /(\w+);(\w+)/;
  my ($row, $col) = ($1,$2);
  $A{$row}{$col}++; # ++ just triggers the autovivification (see: perl
+ref)
  $A{$col}{$row}++; # uncomment line if relationship is not bidirectio
+nal
                    #           ... would break gimmick#1
}

# Gimmick #1: auto-generated list-order when list-order was not given
#             assumption: symmetric relationship -> square matrix;
#             combinations never paired are filtered out - bug or feat
+ure?
@order = sort keys %A unless @order; # create order unless given above

# Gimmick #2: fixed auto-width for output (min. width: 2+3 ('###'))
my $width  = 2 + (sort { $a <=> $b } ( map { length $_ } (@order, '###
+' )) )[-1];
my $format = '%-' . $width . 's';  # printf()-format for fixed width c
+olumns

# print header
printf($format, $_) for ( " ", @order );
print "\n";

# print matrix A
for my $row (@order) {
  printf($format, $row);

  for my $col (@order) {
    printf($format, exists $A{$row}{$col} ? "1" : "0");
    # Idea for gimmick#3: $format = f( column )
  }
  print "\n";
}

__DATA__
horse;tiger
lion;mule
lion;tiger
horse;mule
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In reply to Re: create a matrix for print 0 or 1 from pairing by Perlbotics
in thread create a matrix for print 0 or 1 from pairing by vis1982

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