Hi,

But the fastest solution is using a closure: 

sub step {
   my $step=shift;
   my $count=0;
   my @array=@_;
   return sub {
      $return=$array[$count];
      $count+=$step;
      return $return
      };
   };
 
for ( my $s=step(5,2..100); my $res=&$s ; 1 ) {
   print "$res ";
   }

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My benchmark shows 6 times faster than the map, and 10 times faster than the step method.

The reason is that I transfer an array only once, and than do queries in the array, whilst with map or step, one iterates over more than one array (map/grep and foreach).
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

In reply to Re: Re: foreach .. stepping?n by mce
in thread foreach .. stepping? by meetn2veg

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