Re: Deleting an element from an array.

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Oct 3, Mason, Andrew said:

>Say I have an array @array = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>
>I know I want to remove the second value, $array[2].  How should I do
>this?

You want splice().

  splice @array, $offset, $length, @replacement;

In your case, $offset is 2, $length is 1, and there is no @replacement.

  splice @array, 2, 1;

For more, read:  perldoc -f splice

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