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Thanks for that explanation, Ken.

I was aware of what "print for..." does (though I didn't realise some of the finer points you've mentioned), but I asked because I thought your code also worked without the 'for'.  I now notice that the output without the 'for' has no newline between the returned arguments, i.e.:
   ABCDEFGHIJabcde
which I assume is because it's just printing the 2 arguments (like a list) together.

All that makes sense now though (I think), thanks.

Sorry I wasn't clearer with my last question.

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Re^6: Merge 2 strings like a zip [unzip()]
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 10, 2015 at 04:35 UTC

    No worries. And, yes, your assumption is correct. Alternatives might be 

    print join "\n", unzip('AaBbCcDdEeFGHIJ', 5);

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    or the completely mad and hairy 

    {
    local $" = "\n";
    print "@{[unzip('AaBbCcDdEeFGHIJ', 5)]}";
}

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    which, of course, you'd never consider doing, would you? :-)

    -- Ken

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      Thanks Ken.

      Correct - I would not do that.  I does my head in.

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