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in thread splitting arrays

sadly, there is no "line" termination character, i only know when to start the next one after 50 tab-delimited 'things' have been found

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Re^5: splitting arrays
by RazorbladeBidet (Friar) on Apr 15, 2005 at 14:03 UTC
    if newlines are considered part of the data:
    (untested)
    { local $/="\t"; my $i = 0; my @arr = (); while ( <FILE> ) { push @{$arr[$i++%50]}, $_; } }
    This should (note that the code is untested) give you an array of array references that each contain 50 items (except possibly the last array ref).

    Does that do what you wanted?
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