#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @A = ( 1 .. 3, 'abc', 'zz', 79, 444 ); my $A = join ',', @A; print "# With 'undef's:\n"; for my( $i, $j, $k )( @A ){ print "[$i-$j-$k]"; } print "\n"; for( my $i = 0; $i < @A; $i += 3 ){ print "[$A[ $i ]-$A[ $i + 1 ]-$A[ $i + 2 ]]"; } print "\n"; print "Without 'undef's -- no stepping out of an array:\n"; for my $i ( grep $_ % 3 == 0, 0 .. @A - 3 ){ print "[$A[ $i ]-$A[ $i + 1 ]-$A[ $i + 2 ]]"; } print "\n"; $A =~ m/ \b([^,]+)\b, \b([^,]+)\b,(*SKIP) \b([^,]+)\b (?{ print "[$1-$2-$3]" }) (*FAIL) /x; print "\n";