use Perl6::Form; my @files = ; my $files = join "", @files; print "Number of cols: "; my $colcount = <>; print form '{:[{*}[:} ' x $colcount, ($files) x $colcount; print "\n\n"; print form '{:[{*}[:} ' x $colcount, (\@files) x $colcount; __DATA__ file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 file8 file9 file10 file11 file12 and this is lucky file13 file14 file15 file16 file17 file18 file19