It looks like just two passes through a 2D array to me, which can be factorised into one pass through the outer dimension: 
my @TwoD = ( ['A','B','C'], ['A','D','C'], ['A','B','C'] );
my ( $slotH, %slotH ) = (-1,());
my @result = ();
for ( my $i1 = 0; $i1 <= $#TwoD; $i1++ ) {
    for ( my $i2 = 0; $i2 <= $#{ $TwoD[ $i1 ]}; $i2++ ) {
        my $v = $TwoD[ $i1 ][ $i2 ];
        defined( $slotH{ $v } ) or $slotH{ $v } = ++$slotH;
        $result[$i1][$slotH{ $v }] = $v;
    }
    for ( my $i2 = 0; $i2 <= $slotH; $i2++ ) {
        $i2 and print "\t";
        print ( $result[$i1][$i2] || '' );
    }
    print "\n";
}

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produces
A       B       C
A               C       D
A       B       C

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Update: actually my version needs its output rotating 90 degrees to get exactly the same output, but the technique is similar for doing that, resulting in minor change to the above script.

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In reply to Re: Converting Arrays into Matrix by anonymized user 468275
in thread Converting Arrays into Matrix by janDD

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