•Re: Breaking output lines into N-element chunks

[merlyn]

in reply to Breaking output lines into N-element chunks

I prefer the easy-to-read idiom:

my @data = (... long list ...);
while (my @chunk = splice @data, 0, 4) { # 4 items at a time
... process @chunk ...
}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker