This looks very much like something where you should be using a hash rather than parallel arrays. Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %tasks = (
    read => [qw(book novel magazine)],
    eat  => [qw(apple banana)],
    play => [qw(football tennis)],
    );

for my $task (sort keys %tasks) {
    my @objects = @{$tasks{$task}};

    print "I can $task a ";
    
    print join ', ', @objects[0 .. $#objects - 1];
    print " and a $objects[-1]" if @objects > 1;
    print ".\n";
}

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Prints:

I can eat a apple and a banana.
I can play a football and a tennis.
I can read a book, novel and a magazine.

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which shows a few language handling problems, but ought to demonstrate how such code hangs together.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: how to initialize array to null values by GrandFather
in thread how to initialize array to null values by sharan

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