>>>>> "Ramprasad" == Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ramprasad> Hello all,
Ramprasad> Suppose I have a huge array of filenames and I want to move them
Ramprasad> I would like to move 1 chunk at a time on 'n' elements
Ramprasad> How Can I efficiently do it ?
Ramprasad> something like
Ramprasad> @allfiles = (....) # 10000 files
My pattern for that is:
my @copy = @allfiles; # destructive... so we have to copy
while (@copy) {
my @chunk = splice @copy, 0, 100; # remove first 100 elements (or less)
... do something with @chunk ...
}
Seems to work quite easily.
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