I currently have a data structure where I have a bunch of (roughly) key/value pairs. However, they are NOT hashable, both because keys are not unique, and because order is important.

Currently, I have lots of accessor functions where I do stuff like this to extract the values, but not the keys. 

        my @subs;

        my @subdata = @{$self->{_subfields}};
        while ( @subdata ) {
                my $code = shift @subdata;
                my $text = shift @subdata;
                push( @subs, $text );
        } # for

        # And then I can do stuff with @subs

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Any suggestions on a better idiom? I really don't dig having to make a copy of the list to jump thru it. I've thought about hitting the 2nd, 4th, 6th, etc elements, but that seems to non-Perl-like.

Suggestions welcomed...

Thanks,
xoxo,
Andy 

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