The problem with splice is that it would chop the values out of the original array, and he doesn't want to use a dupe.

This might be the time to use old-timey C-style for: 

my @list = ('1','val','2','val2','1','val3');
my $self = { _subfields => [@list] };
my @subs;

for (my $index = 1; $index < @{$self->{_subfields}}; $index+=2) {
    push @subs, ${$self->{_subfields}}[$index]; 
}

# waa-la:
print $_,"\n" foreach (@subs);

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It's ugly, but it avoids the duplication. For the cost of a scalar you could always use 
my $aryref = $self->{_subfields};

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instead.

-- Frag.

In reply to Re: Re: Idiom for looping thru key/value pairs by frag
in thread Idiom for looping thru key/value pairs by petdance

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