Your problem requires the following

• The number of loops
• The iteration ranges for each loop
• Code which uses the loop indices

You can encode the first two however you'd like; in the following example I've simply put the ranges in an array.

You haven't provided an example of the code which runs inside the innermost loop. It might be useful if you provided some idea of what you're trying to do inside of those loops.

I'm assuming that your code only needs to know the loop indices.

Here's how you can use Math::Cartesian::Product:

use Math::Cartesian::Product;

# this encodes the number of loops and their ranges
my @ranges = ( [ 0..1 ], [ 1..2 ], [2..3] );

# the code inside the braces is run for every combination
# of the ranges
cartesian {

  print "indices: @_\n";

}  @ranges;

# here's a version using a subroutine which sums up
# the indices (just to do something with them)
sub compute {

  my $sum = 0;
  $sum += $_ foreach @_;

  print "sum of @_ = $sum\n";

}

cartesian \&compute, @ranges;
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And here are the results:

indices: 0 1 2
indices: 0 1 3
indices: 0 2 2
indices: 0 2 3
indices: 1 1 2
indices: 1 1 3
indices: 1 2 2
indices: 1 2 3
sum of 0 1 2 = 3
sum of 0 1 3 = 4
sum of 0 2 2 = 4
sum of 0 2 3 = 5
sum of 1 1 2 = 4
sum of 1 1 3 = 5
sum of 1 2 2 = 5
sum of 1 2 3 = 6
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