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Re^2: Pop/shift/delete on arrayby revdiablo (Prior) |
on Jul 14, 2005 at 16:39 UTC ( [id://474954]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
on an array it only undefines the value of an element Actually, it does a bit more than "only" undefining the value. I'm not sure how useful this behavior is, but it's not quite the same as simply setting the value to undef. Here's a code snippet that demonstrates:
When run, it outputs the following:
We see that the first delete call does indeed appear to simply set the value to undef, but when we delete again, it demonstrates the difference. Update: betterworld beat me to it, by a pretty large margin. That'll teach me not to reload before replying. :-)
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