Okay, I have an ftp download that picks up the most recent file (they have datestamps in the file name), with a particular set of names defined in an array.

It's a "chatty" script, one which indicates the files available and then downloads the proper one. I'd really like the listing to put a newline after every second file, so that instead of:

files available=
file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6

I get:

files available=
file1, file2
file3, file4
file5, file6


Please forgive the style of code snippet below -- it does break things out into more explicit steps than it probably needs.

for (@data){
    @datafiles = $ftp->ls("*$_\.*1");
    @datafiles = reverse @datafiles;
    print "files available=\n".join ", ", @datafiles;
    print "\n";
    $currentfile = $datafiles[0];
    print "getting $currentfile\n";
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suggestions?

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