my @new_order = (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 4); my @AoA = ( [ qw(1 2 3 4 5 6), ], [ qw(a b c d e f), ], ); my @new_aoa; for (@AoA){ push @new_aoa, [@$_[@new_order]]; } print Dumper \@new_aoa;