#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @array = qw(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20); my $rows = 2; my $row_count = 0; my $array_total = 7; print "[START]\n"; for(my $i = 1; $array_total >= $i; ++$i) { if ($row_count == 0) { $row_count += 2; print "$array[$i] "; } elsif ($i == $array_total) { print "$array[$i]"; } elsif ($rows == $row_count) { $row_count = 0; print "$array[$i]\n"; } else { ++$row_count; print "$array[$i] "; } } print "\n[END]\n";