Re: Perl: removing an array element?

by "Harold A. Driscoll" <harold(at)driscoll.chi.il.us>

Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:39:20 -0600
To:	"Peter Newton" <c-newton(at)ihug.co.nz>
Cc:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	co
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At 19:12 31-01-00 , Peter Newton wrote:
>Is their a SIMPLER way than this to remove a 
>parlicular element from an array:-

Yes. Use the splice function... see perfunc (or the camel book) for details.

It allows you to remove one or several elements, or if you so desire
replace them with others. It returns the deleted elements.

A quite useful function. Safe computing,  /Harold
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