Printing array with delimiters in Perl
- by Mark B
I have an array in Perl I want to print with space delimiters between each element, except every 10th element which should be newline delimited. There aren't any spaces in the elements if that matters.
I've written a function to do it with for and a counter, but I wondered if there's a better/shorter/canonical Perl way, perhaps a special join syntax or similar.
My function to illustrate:
sub PrintArrayWithNewlines
{
my $counter = 0;
my $newlineIndex = shift @_;
foreach my $item (@_)
{
++$counter;
print "$item";
if($counter == $newlineIndex)
{
$counter = 0;
print "\n";
}
else
{
print " ";
}
}
}
