I'm trying to get an array sorted into 3 parts, along the lines of (1,4,7) (2,5,8) (3,6,9). I thought that changing $linkscount = 4 to 0 would be the way to go but that command seems to be being ignored and I get the error message after the first pass. What is going wrong and what is the best way to do this? 
foreach (@online) {
  if ($linkscount == 4) {
    $linkscount = 0;
  }
  $linkscount++;
  print "$_ :: $linkscount<br>\n";
  if ($linkscount == 1) {
    push @links1, $_;
  } elsif ($linkscount == 2) {
    push @links2, $_;
  }  elsif ($linkscount == 3) {
    push @links3, $_;
  } else {
    print "error!";
    exit;
  }
}

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