Re: [MacPerl] Removing an element from an array

[Don Arbow <donarb@nwlink.com>]

On 11/30/99 at 7:11 AM, jakal wrote:

: What is the best way to remove an element from the middle of an array?
: 
: For example, if I have an array containing the ten lines of a text file,
: one line in each element of the array, and I want to delete line $x from
: the file, what is the best wau to do it?
: 


use splice:

splice(@lines, $x, 1);

Now, @lines contains the array minus the $x'th element.

Don



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