in reply to splitting 2D array into chunks
I agree your question is badly posed; I, at least, don't really understand the details.
See How to ask better questions using Test::More and sample data. You might start with something like
Construct the output arrays first and test the process. Once you have the output arrays constructed, it should be fairly straightforward to output them to files.use strict; use warnings; use Test::More 'tests' => <number of tests>; use Test::NoWarnings; # adds 1 test use Data::Dumper; # for debug my @al = (...); my @distribution = ( 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10, ); my $ar_expected_output = ( [ ... ], [ ... ], ... ); my $ar_got_output = distribute(\@al, \@distribution); is_deeply $ar_got_output, $ar_expected_output; exit; # subroutines ############################################# sub distribute { my ($ar_input, # array ref.: input array $ar_distribution, # array ref.: distribution to output arrays ) = @_; my @output; ... return \@output; }
See also Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example and Perl Data Structures Cookbook.
See perlintro for basic file I/O stuff, open and perlopentut for more advanced stuff.
Maybe also see I know what I mean. Why don't you?
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