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Stepped Series of Numbers in Perl

In working on a Perl validation function for GTINs (recipe here), I found a need to generate a series of numbers with a step of two. For example, I in the series 1-10, I first want 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. And then later I want 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Here’s how I went about creating those series in my GTIN function to create hash slices:

sub isa_gtin {
    my @nums = reverse split q{}, shift;
    (
        sum( @nums[ grep {   $_ % 2  } 0..$#nums ] ) * 3
        + sum( @nums[ grep { !($_ % 2) } 0..$#nums ] )
    ) % 10 == 0;
}

But it seems wasteful to generate the series of numbers twice and to calculate whether they’re odd or even twice. Surely there’s a more efficient way to do this in Perl, perhaps even more expressive? Python seems to have a useful syntax for creating array slices that step. In Python, I’d do something like this:

sum( nums[1:10:2] ) * 3 + sum( nums[2:10:2])

But barring such a slice feature in Perl is there some cleaner way than the ugly grep approach I created to generate a stepped series in Perl?

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