How do I read two items at a time in a Perl foreach loop?

Question

What I\'m looking for is something like:

@list = qw(1 2 3 4 5 6);
foreach (@list) {
  #perl magic goes here 
  print \"i: $i, j:$j\\n\";
}

Answer 1

Using a for loop would do what you need.

use strict;
use warnings;

my @list = qw(1 2 3 4 5 );
my $i = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < scalar(@list); $i++)
{
    my $a = $list[$i];
    my $b = $list[++$i];
    if(defined($a)) {
        print "a:$a";
    }
    if(defined($b)) {
        print "b:$b";
    }   
    print "\n";
}

edit: I corrected my post to use the scalar function to retrieve the size of the array and also add some checking in case the array does not contain an even number of elements.