How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array

vroom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to take a long string of text and split it into a two-dimensional array of $width x $height. I know of several ways to do this but none of them are as quick and dirty as I'd like them to be? Any suggestions?

Some clarification: I want to read in the data from a bitmap say a PGM file where each 'character' is a pixel. First I'm going to break the header off the string, after that I want to split the data portion into a 2-D array of $widthx$height. I know of ways to do this but am looking for something really quick and clever.

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Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 01, 2000 at 10:58 UTC
How about: `my $data = "whatever"; my @pixels = [][]; for (my $i = 1; $i < $height; $i++) { (@pixels[$i][1 .. $width], $data) = split('', $data, $width); }` [download] (untested)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by fenonn (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2001 at 23:21 UTC
Well if there is a char that marks the end of a row (new line for example) you could try something like this. `@array = map { [split//] } (split/\n/,$string);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by BBQ (Curate) on Dec 24, 1999 at 03:03 UTC
I agree with root. I guess giving a purpose for the split might be more enlightning. What do you want the two arrays do? What should they control? Are we talking bitmaps here?	[reply]
Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by da w00t (Sexton) on Dec 30, 1999 at 02:24 UTC
would something liek this work? `#!/usr/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; open(FILE,"<xpm-pic"); $row=-1;$col=-1; while (<FILE>) { chomp; $row++; $col=-1; foreach $char (split //) { $col++;$pix[$row][$col]=$char; } } print Dumper(\@pix);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 1999 at 03:56 UTC
I'm not sure the problem is clear. What do you want each element of an array to be? You could always use nested Foreach loops, of course...	[reply]
Re: How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array by nothingmuch (Priest) on Jan 14, 2005 at 17:07 UTC
`map { [ split '', $_ ] } unpack join(" ", ("a$width") x $height), $string;` [download] -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply] [d/l]