Basically, you either know all the lists are the same length, or you extract the length of the longest one programmatically (you say you know how to make the data structure so I assume you know how to access it). Once you have that information, do a foreach $element_num (1..$foo) { where $foo is your number of elements in the longest list. For each number, you extract one element from each list with an internal foreach loop that uses keys to get you the individual list names.

Alternately, you could make an array of arrays and just make element 0 of each row the name of that list--then it should be fairly obvious how to march across all the rows in lock-step. It depends on whether you want easy access to the data by list name.


In reply to Re^3: variable number of lists by ssandv
in thread variable number of lists by jbfamilly

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