in reply to functional opposite of zip

Something like this?

#! perl -slw use strict; sub unzip { my @first; map{ @first ? [ pop( @first ), $_ ] : do{ push( @first, $_ ); () } } @_ } my %h = 'a' .. 'z'; print @$_ for unzip %h; __END__ C:\test>unzip wx ef ab mn st yz uv cd kl qr gh ij op

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