use strict; use warnings; use List::Util qw/sum/; # finds one solution sub findsum { my ($target, @array) = @_; while( @array ) { my $cand = shift @array; return () if $cand > $target; return ( $cand ) if $cand==$target; my @sol = findsum( $target-$cand, @array ); return ($cand, @sol) if @sol; } return (); } my @array = qw(1 3 5 7); my $total = sum(@array); die "Odd total $total cannot be split!\n" if $total % 2; my @sol = findsum( $total/2, sort @array ); if( @sol ) { print "Solution: ",join( ",", @sol), "\n"; } else { print "No solution."; }