You can delete elements from an array using splice. But it's not a good idea to do that in a loop (very error-prone). Deleting elements from the middle of a big array is not a fast operation anyway. I'd rather replace processed elements with undef. Like that: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my %hash = (
    a => 1,
    n => 1,
    z => 1,
);

my @ary = qw( a b n m y z );

for my $key ( keys %hash ) {
    for my $elem (@ary) {
        next if not defined $elem;
        if ( $elem =~ $key ) {
            $elem = undef;
        }
    }
}

print Dumper \@ary;

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output: 
$VAR1 = [
          undef,
          'b',
          undef,
          'm',
          'y',
          undef
        ];

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It works because $elem in this kind of loop is magical... it's an 'alias' (so I guess a pointer) to the real elements of array.

In reply to Re: Deleting records from an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread Deleting records from an array by viffer

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