Good Morning! I searched around and I didn't find much on it. I have 2 array references and I am searching one for combinations of keys that match the other one. The inner one is the small one. When I find one, I would like to remove it from the inner array to reduce the total search space on the next iteration. My example shows the algorithm, but I didn't post the loading of the arefs. Any recommendations on a different algorithm? Any recommendations on how to modify that array? I saw in the Perl Docs that delete will be deprecated.

any suggestions would be good.

thanks -theleftsock 

use warnings;
use strict;

my ($outer_hr_aref, $inner_hr_aref);

foreach my $outer_href (@$outer_hr_aref) {
    foreach my $inner_href (@$inner_hr_aref) {
        if (($$outer_href{key1} eq $$inner_href{key2}) & ($$outer_href
+{key3} == $$inner_href{key4})) { #abitrary key assignment could be ot
+her combinations
            print "status found: $$inner_href matching $outer_href\n";
            $$outer_href{key1} = 'something_new'; #arbitrary, other fu
+nction calls can occur
            #somehow now remove the $inner_href item from the @$inner_
+hr_aref so i don't have to search the entire aref again.   
            last;
        }
    }
}

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