Hi,

Well that code is a step in the right direction. Couple things though, you can put the test inside the while loop instead of using "last". You can grab the first 9 items off of the array and delete them from the array in one operation using splice. This lets you avoid using the "@i" array. So:

my @array = map {$_ * 10} 1 .. 20;   # test data
while (@array > 8) {
        print join "\n", splice(@array,0,9);
        print "\n--------------------\n";
}

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Note that if the array isn't divisible by 9, the last few items will be silently ignored. If you'd rather see them, it's safe to just omit the "> 8".. splice will return whatever remains even though it's not the full 9 items.

In reply to Re^3: take 'n' array elements at a time by Loops
in thread take 'n' array elements at a time by fionbarr

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