Greetings:

I'm trying to allocate a working schedule denoted by numerical ranges of 200 units apiece. What I need is a way to display that schedule split up into a number of "chunks" per volunteer, where each volunteer has given me the number of chunks they're willing to do, like so:

$a = 2192;        # Starting number
# Ben = 5, Scott = 4, Jim = 1, more to be added later
for (0..98){
    my $b=$a + 200; 
    my $name = $_ % 10 < 5 ? "Ben" :
        $_ % 10 > 8 ? "Jim" :
        "Scott";
    print "$a-$b\t\t$name", "\n";
    $a+=201;
}
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So far, this does the right thing - but adding each volunteer is a pain, and I see myself hacking great big ugly *unreadable* logic trees into the script. Yuck!

What I'd really like is a hash where I can add, e.g., 'Joe => 3' and have the script allocate all the stuff properly. Doesn't sound too complex, right? Yeah, I do feel like an idiot for not being able to figure this out for myself...

Thanks for any help.