I think he considers each 1,2,3,4,5 as a unit and wants 4 files with round-robin units in each. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;

my @outfile = ('file1.txt', 'file2.txt', 'file3.txt' , 'file4.txt');
my $infile = 'infile.txt';
my $lineno = 0;

open (my $ifh, '<', $infile);
while (<$ifh>) {
        my $out = $outfile[floor($lineno / 5)];
        open (my $fh, '>>', $outfile[floor($lineno / 5)%4]) or die "Un
+able to open outfile";
        print $fh $_;
        close $fh;
        $lineno++;
}
close ($ifh);

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In reply to Re: Splitting a Blocked file in Round Robin into smaller files by KurtSchwind
in thread Splitting a Blocked file in Round Robin into smaller files by tradersjoe0

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