Re: [FWP] Interleaving arrays

[tomr@aceldama.com]

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 02:19:29PM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 1999-11-10-13:30:18 tomr@aceldama.com:
> >    @cats = @cats[map (($_/2 + ($_ % 2) * $#cats/2), 0..$#cats)];
> > 
> > [...] Anyone else have comments?
> 
> You are a sick little monkey. I like that. :-)

Umm... thanks, I guess.

> Seriously, this is something I frequently need to do, and I've never
> seen such a lovely way of saying it. Next natural question would be,
> does it keep working for ncols!=2. Looks to me like it does. So my
> typical application would look more like
[generic code snipped]
> Well, that's creapy, it works. I'm still not perfectly sure why nrows doesn't
> need to be rounded up.

That's an interesting point. I was worried about until I found that it
didn't seem to be necessary :)

> Anybody know an elegant way to do multicolumn output the way ls(1)
> does, with the column padding dependant only on the widths of the
> elements that end up in those columns?

My ls(1) doesn't do that - all of the columns are the same width.

Tom

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