G'day anilmwr,

Welcome to the monastery.

"Is there any better way to do this?"

That probably depends on what you mean by "better". Here's a different way of doing it which:

• uses strict
• uses warnings
• doesn't use package global variables
• doesn't require the creation of three additional arrays

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = (1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0);
print "@array";

my $zeros = 0;
@array = map { $_ == 0 ? ++$zeros && () : $_ } @array;
unshift @array, (0) x $zeros;
print "@array";
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Output:

1 2 3 4 2 1 2 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 1 2 3 4 2 1 2 1
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If by "better", you meant faster, use the builtin module, Benchmark, to find out.

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