#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @a = ('1', '2', '3', '4'); my @b = ('2', '3', '4', '5', '4', '3', '3', '6', '7'); my $x = 0; while($b[$x] ne $a[$#a]) { $x++; } foreach my $i (@b[($x + 1) .. $#b]){ print "$i\n"; }