On the other hand, if you did just one query into an array, you could use grep on the array to create two subset arrays: 
@A_K = grep /^[A-K]/, @query_results;
@L_Z = grep /^[L-Z]/, @query_results;

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On the the third hand, if you were using a DBI function that returns one row per iteration, you could split the set within the fetch loop, like this: 
my @A_K;
my @L_Z;
my $aref = \@A_K;
while ( my $row = $dbh->fetchrow_arrayref ) {
    $aref = \@L_Z if ( $$row[$last_name_col] =~ /^L/ );
    push @$aref, [ @$row ];
}

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update: Note that the latter both methods assume that you're still using the "ORDER BY" clause in your SQL; in the former, the sequence is preserved in both subsets; in the latter, once you hit a name that starts with "L", you switch to the second array for collecting all remaining rows.

In reply to Re: Regex or Index by graff
in thread Regex or Index by perleager

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