Re: printing 20 characters in a line.

You can do like this, if the number of character is fixed

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $str="30 30 36 33 36 36 36 33 36 34 26 24 21 17 17 23 27 27 31 31 3 +4 33 33 33 36 36 37 38 38 38 38 38 35 40 34 34 34 31 37 36 37 37 40 4 +0 49 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 33 30 30 30 30 30 42 45 45 45 45 45 49 4 +2 42"; open (OUT,">format.out"); my @array=split(/ /,$str); for (0..19){ print OUT "$array[$_] "; } close(OUT);
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Punitha

Updated after the reply from heidi

I misunderstood the question, thanks for the reply heidi. So here is the code you needed,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $str="30 30 36 33 36 36 36 33 36 34 26 24 21 17 17 23 27 27 31 31 3
+4 33 33 33 36 36 37 38 38 38 38 38 35 40 34 34 34 31 37 36 37 37 40 4
+0 49 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 33 30 30 30 30 30 42 45 45 45 45 45 49 4
+2 42";
open (OUT,">format.out");
my @array=split(/ /,$str);
my $cnt=0;
foreach (0..$#array){
    ++$cnt;
    if ($cnt % 20 == 0){
        print OUT "$array[$_]\n";
    }
    else{
        print OUT "$array[$_] ";
    }    
}
close(OUT);
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Punitha

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Re^2: printing 20 characters in a line. by ikegami (Pope) on Nov 14, 2008 at 06:11 UTC
Either you don't need `$cnt`, or you don't need to iterate over the indexes. `for (0..$#array){ if ($_ % 20 == 19){ print OUT "$array[$_]\n"; } else{ print OUT "$array[$_] "; } }` [download] `for (@array){ if (++$cnt % 20 == 0){ print OUT "$_\n"; } else{ print OUT "$_ "; } }` [download] It's probably worth noting the last line has a trailing space and isn't terminated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: printing 20 characters in a line. by heidi (Sexton) on Nov 14, 2008 at 04:55 UTC
ooopzz, you got me wrong. The whole string has to be printed line by line. Not only the first line. sorry for not giving the expected output format. here it is `30 30 36 33 36 36 36 33 36 34 26 24 21 17 17 23 27 27 31 31 34 33 33 33 36 36 37 38 38 38 38 38 35 40 34 34 34 31 37 36 37 37 40 40 49 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 33 30 30 30 30 30 42 45 45 45 45 45 49 42 42` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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