Re: Long array -> multiple columns?

[halley]

There is a common Un*x tool called column that can do this job, and if you're familiar with the Un*x directory listing command ls, then you're probably familiar with the multiple-column output that it produces.

I just looked at the C source code to this utility, and it's an ugly mess. Small and efficient, possibly, but not particularly literate. It looks like someone thought that a robo-indenting tool made code readable, because everything is indented consistently but there's nary a comment to explain how it works.

This is something I thought I had seen on CPAN, but I guess Text::Table is a bit different in purpose.