in reply to split every other value

Here's an evil trick to do it, 

my %hash;
%hash = split /,/, $scalar;
my @evens = keys %hash;
my @odds = values %hash;

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That does not preserve order, but each value is the element following its key.

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Re^2: split every other value
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2004 at 00:11 UTC

    That's fine until you have two identical elements in any of the even fields.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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