Question

Whats the easy/efficient way of interleaving three data sets..

Data1 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>],
Data2 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>],
Data3 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>].

End Result:

Final = [<<5>>, <<5>>, <<5>>, <<6>>, <<6>>, <<6>>, <<7>>, <<7>>, <<7>>]

Im sure its like

[X || X <- [Data1, Data2, Data3]]

Answer 1

Module function:

zip3(X, Y, Z) when X =:= []; Y =:= []; Z =:= [] -> [];
zip3([HX | TX], [HY | TY], [HZ | TZ]) -> [ HX, HY, HZ | zip3(TX, TY, TZ)].

Same in shell:

F = fun(D1, D2, D3) ->
  G = fun(F, X, Y, Z) when X =:= []; Y =:= []; Z =:= [] -> [];
         (F, [HX | TX], [HY | TY], [HZ | TZ]) -> [ HX, HY, HZ | F(F, TX, TY, TZ)]
      end,
  G(G, D1, D2, D3)
end,                                                                              
Data1 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>],
Data2 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>],
Data3 = [<<5>>,<<6>>,<<7>>],
F(Data1, Data2, Data3).
[<<5>>,<<5>>,<<5>>,<<6>>,<<6>>,<<6>>,<<7>>,<<7>>,<<7>>]

And of course you can do it with lists module:

lists:append(lists:zipwith3(fun(X, Y, Z) -> [X, Y, Z] end, Data1, Data2, Data3)).
[<<5>>,<<5>>,<<5>>,<<6>>,<<6>>,<<6>>,<<7>>,<<7>>,<<7>>]