What I want to do is grab the first block of 20 elements from the array and perform some task on them. Then I want to grab the second block of whatever number of elements is left (lets say there is 12 left) and perform a task on them.

And what will happen when your requirements change and you need, say, 13 elements instead of 20? You'll have to change your code so that 0..19 becomes 0..12, 20..32 becomes 13..25 and you'll have to add another iteration for the elements 26..$#unique_vault_list. That is partly addressed by the splice solution but I think List::MoreUtils' natatime function would be better suited for this:

use List::MoreUtils qw/natatime/;

my @unique_vault_list = 0..31;
my $iter = natatime 20, @unique_vault_list;

while (my @cur = $iter->()) {
  ## now you have each group of 20 elements in @cur
  print "@cur\n";
}
__END__
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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This way, you don't have to work with @tapes_for_box1, @tapes_for_box2 and maybe @tapes_for_box3...

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David Serrano

In reply to Re: Array elements in groups of 20 by Hue-Bond
in thread Array elements in groups of 20 by jgiller

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