Re^3: What is Perl way to simultaneously assign to three separate arrays?

> I'd like to know if everything can be done in a single assignment without any munging afterward.)

No, you are using /g in list context which swallows the whole file now and returns a flat list.

You need an external loop to process the 3 groups

With a post while you can have the loop in the same line

push @res, [ $1,$2,$3 ] while m/.../g

In the OP you were originally looping with $_ , that's confusing.

you should rather be concerned about maintainability than shortness.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^4: What is Perl way to simultaneously assign to three separate arrays? by CoVAX (Beadle) on Feb 15, 2015 at 20:40 UTC
you should rather be concerned about maintainability than shortness. Agreed. Still, I am fascinated by idiomatic Perl and its myriad other ways of doing something (the Schwartzian Transform comes to mind). Searched for donut and crumpit. Found donate and stumbit instead.	[reply]