Hi geniuses,
I'm processing some video data from Google's API. I have an array, @vidids, that could have up to several thousand elements which are video IDs. I want to get the view count for each video ID. I want to loop through the array, taking 50 elements on each pass (which is the max allowed) and getting the view counts for those. These counts I want to stuff into array @counts, until the @vidids is empty. With limited understanding of perl, I imagine starting out something like:
my $idees = join ',', @vidids[0..49]; #the id's must be comma separated 
foreach (@vidids) {
my $uri = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=items(vie
+wCount)&id=$idees&key=$API_KEY";  ##$idees is the 50-max comma separa
+ted string of video IDs
my $result = get($uri);
my $json = decode_json($result);

for my $i( @{$json->{items}} ) {
push @counts, $i->{viewCount};
   }
$idees = "the next 50 elements from @vidids..." #and keep looping unti
+l all are processed 
}

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I have all of it working except the looping through @vidids. I just don't have the grasp of perl operations to put it together well. Also, what if there aren't 50 left at the end? I don't want to create null elements. Thanks!

In reply to Next 50 array elements during each loop? by Bman70

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