In real life, I would normally use a splice like Errto and jdporter.

Before *any* solution, I would put:

die if @ref / 3;

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Most elegant, non-destructive Perl5 solution I could think of:

my %out = map  { $ref[$_] => [ @ref[$_+1..$_+2] ] }
          grep { not $_ % 3 }
          0 .. $#ref;

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Even better, but requires Perl6:

for @ref -> $key, $val1, $val2 {
    %out{$key} = [ $val1, $val2 ];
}

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Update: Better yet, this also works in Perl6:

my %out = map -> $k, $v, $w {
    $k => [ $v, $w ];
}, @ref;

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In reply to Re: Elegance, dammit! by Util
in thread Elegance, dammit! by oko1

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