good morning. I am working with an array reference of hash references. i am looking to match a particular set of keys, but I am returning a subset of that array ref hash refs and searching that array for the full combination of keys. then I set the $inn_href undef and grep over the original aref to remove any found sets of keys reducing the search size. The problem is that the array returned by grep are not references to $aref_hrefs_inn, so $aref_hrefs_inn is not reduced. Does anyone know how I can get the references correctly in my search array so that when i set it to undef i set the original array refs values to undefined?

Update: Just for some clarity, $aref_hrefs_inn is an array reference of hash references. I want to find a subset of that array, looking for one particular key->value pair of which there are multiple in the array reference. from there I want to loop through this subset to match other keys. I want to modify my large array reference of hash references in place by removing any rows that I found. My apologies if the codes isn't clear as code is sort of long, and I posted this example quickly. Ill try to come up with a functioning example easily.

thanks -theleftsock 

@$search_array = grep{$_->{key_inn} eq $$out_href{key_search}} @$aref_
+hrefs_inn;
foreach my $inn_href (@$search_array) {
    if (check_match($args_href) == 1) {
        if ($$flags_href{unique} == 1) {
            $inn_href = undef;
        }
        last;
    }
}
@$aref_hrefs_inn = grep {$_} @$aref_hrefs_inn;

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