Here is my attempt without using arrays. Note this doesn't break them into two columns (it sort of almost does, it prints the first half and then the second half), but it's the best I could do. Maybe you could figure out how to hack it to do what you want. It'd actually be interesting to see if someone can fix my almost functional code. 
my $half = scalar keys %hash;
$half = $half / 2 + 1;

my $cnt = 0;
foreach (keys %hash)
{
  $cnt++;
  my $key = $_;

  if ($cnt <= $half)
  {
     print "$key => $hash{$key}\n";
  }
  else
  {
     print "\t$key => $hash{$key}\n";
  }
}

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In reply to Re: split hash into two columns by sulfericacid
in thread split hash into two columns by Anonymous Monk

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