Is it possible to assign two variables in Perl foreach loop?

Question

Is it possible to assign two variables the same data from an array in a Perl foreach loop?

I am using Perl 5, I think I came across something in Perl 6.

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Answer 1

It's not in the Perl 5 core language, but List::Util has a pairs function which should be close enough (and a number of other pair... functions which may be more convenient, depending on what you're doing inside the loop):

#!/usr/bin/env perl    

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

use List::Util 'pairs';

my @list = qw(a 1 b 2 c 3);

for my $pair (pairs @list) {
  my ($first, $second) = @$pair;
  say "$first => $second";
}

Output:

a => 1
b => 2
c => 3