Greetings Monks,

I have two references to hashes of arrays: $best and $kept_best. Each array in $best will have 10 elements and each array in $kept_best will have at most 10. Both hashes have the same amount of keys and same key names. I would like to print them out side by side. 

BEST           SELECTED BEST
best->Key1     kept_best->Key1
Key1->el1      Key1->el1
Key1->el2      Key1->el2
...
best->Key2     kept_best->Key2
Key2->el1      Key2->el1
Key2->el2      Key2->el2
...

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I have come up with: 
print "BEST        SELECTED BEST\n";
foreach my $value (sort keys %{$best}){
    my $i = 0;
    foreach my $bind_energy (@{$best->{$value}}){
        printf "%10.5f ", $bind_energy;
        if (defined($kept_best->{$value}->[$i])){
            printf "%10.5f \n", $kept_best->{$value}->[$i];
            $i++;
        }
        else {
            print "\n";
        }
    }
}

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But I find my solution lacking in elegance and wit and wonder if the monks have a better way to do it?.

Thanks,

-tomdbs98

In reply to Print multiple hashes of arrays at same time by tomdbs98

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