TIMTOWTDI: Limits the output to the shortest sequence but comes at the cost of an implicite extra-array...

use strict;
use warnings;

my @ID   = qw(123   456 789   666);
my @name = qw(Smith Doe Allen);

my $line = join(' ', map { $ID[$_], $name[$_] } 
                         0..($#ID < $#name ? $#ID : $#name) 
               );
print "($line)\n";   #output: (123 Smith 456 Doe 789 Allen)
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