Re (tilly) 1: Database Layout

This is what splice is for.

my @list = 1..30;
while (@list) {
  print join "\t", splice(@list, 0, 4);
  print "\n";
}
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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Database Layout by biograd (Friar) on Feb 01, 2002 at 04:13 UTC
This is something I've had on low priority for my own script recently. I did sort of what tilly did but in the messy C-style way with nested for loops. (forgive me please..it was just something to hold over until I got other things done) Problem is that not all entries are the same length, so tabbing doesn't ensure even columns. I was wondering whether the `@<<<<<` formatting placeholders might work for this? I skimmed Chapter7 of Programming Perl, but I confess I haven't studied it carefully yet.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Database Layout
by biograd (Friar) on Feb 01, 2002 at 04:13 UTC

I was wondering whether the @<<<<< formatting placeholders might work for this? I skimmed Chapter7 of Programming Perl, but I confess I haven't studied it carefully yet.

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