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in thread Problem creating array

Man you guys are good. You wouldn't believe the mess of loops I had trying to solve this problem. Thanks for everyone's help!

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Re^3: Problem creating array
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 16, 2009 at 15:10 UTC
    Even if you didn't know how to use "x" to do what you want, it's not messy to do it without "x". 
    # With "x"
for my $i (0..$#count) {
    push @result, ($i) x $count[$i];
}

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    # Without "x"
for my $i (0..$#count) {
    for (1..$count[$i]) {
        push @result, $i;
    }
}

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