title: split SortedList to multiple lists or arrays
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3514740/how-to-split-an-array-into-a-group-of-n-elements-each">How to split an array into a group of n elements each?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I believe I oversimplified this question so I am editing it a bit. From within a .NET 3.5 console application I have a SortedList string,string that will contain an unknown number of key/value pairs. I will get this collection by reading in rows from a table within a Microsoft Word document. The user will then be able to add additional items into this collection. Once the user has finished adding to the collection I then need to write the collection back to a new Microsoft Word document. The difficulty is that the items must be written back to the document in alphabetical order to a multicolumn table, first down the left side of the table and then down the right side of the table and since the output will likely be spread across multiple pages I need to also keep the order across multiple pages. So the first table on the first page may contain A through C on the left side of the table and C through F on the right side of the table then if the table exceeds the page a new table is needed. The new table may contain F through I and the right side L through O.Since the table will likely span multiple pages and I know the maximum number of rows per table per page I can do the math to determine how many tables I will need overall. This image is representative of the output:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mU5k1.png" alt="table output"><br>
  For the sake of brevity if a output table can contain a maximum of 7 rows per page and 2 items per row and I have 28 items then I will need to write the output to 2 tables but of course I won't really know how many tables I will need until I read in the data so I can't simply hardcode the number of output tables.</p>
  
  <p>What is the best way to take my SortedList and split it out into n collections in order to create the table structure described?</p>