Hi monks

I have an array which can be filled with different number of elements. E.g.

my @array = ('sv-bbh-2','sv-bbh-3','sv-bbh-4',
    'sv-bbh-5','dwdm02','avo00106','avo01000');

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This array could have 1 element or 217 elements.

What I now want is to print it in the form of a table (without border) to a xterm window:

adsm-02   besy-02  c006603  c007581    c008433    c009684  
asterix   c003097  c006664  c007653    c008433-1  c009853  
avo00106  c003701  c006790  c007760    c008434    c009992  
avo01000  c003706  c006792  c007761    c008436    c009993

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The column width should be variable.

It's the same output you get when you use "ls" without any parameters in an overcrowded directory.

Is there a special Perl function to do this?

Thank you very much, Kurt

In reply to Create table from a list of values? by Anonymous Monk

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