#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # Faked input my $N = 5; my $M = 9999997; # Compute the sizes of the ranges $M += 1; my $step = int $M / $N; my $extra = $M - $N * $step; my(@sizes) = ($step) x $N; @sizes = map { ($extra-- > 0) ? $_ + 1 : $_ } @sizes; # Generate the ranges my @ranges = ([undef, -1]); for my $size (@sizes) { my $m = $ranges[-1][1]; push( @ranges, [ $m + 1, $m + $size ] ); } shift @ranges; # Output printf "%2d : from %7d to %7d (%7d)\n", $_, @{ $ranges[ $_ ] }, $ranges[ $_ ][ 1 ] - $ranges[ $_ ][ 0 ] + 1 for 0 .. $#ranges;