You could keep a counter; and print each item followed by a comma if counter-mod-3, or by a newline otherwise:

@array = qw (1 1 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 4 1 1); my $i; print $_, ((++$i%3)?",":"\n") for (@array);

Update:

Per your other question, If (and it may in future) contain references how can i print those and not ARRAY(0x860be48) etc?, ref is your friend:

my $q = "Q"; my @p = qw(pee pea); my %h = ( one => 1, two => 2, three => 3); @array = ("1", \@p, "0", "2", "0", \$q, "2", "0", \%h, "4", "1", "1"); my $i; for my $a (@array) { $_ = ref($a); print ( /ARRAY/ ? join(':',@$a) : /HASH/ ? join(':',keys %$a) : /SCALAR/ ? $$a : $a ); print ((++$i%3) ? "," : "\n" ); }

In reply to Re: Group array in threes by hbm
in thread Group array in threes by joec_

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