G'day GrizzlyRizly,

Welcome to the Monastery.

That sounds like you're using one of the many GUIs available in Perl: you need to state which. These GUIs can have multiple combobox widgets: again, you need to state which.

When a combobox item is selected, GUIs can provide various types of information about the selection, such as an index or a string.

If you have an index, and don't care about preserving the original array, perhaps use splice. 

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{a b c}; say "@x"; splice @x, 1, 1; say "@x"'
a b c
a c

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If you have an index, but do care about preserving the original array, perhaps use a slice. 

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{a b c}; say "@x"; my @y = @x[0,2]; say "@y"'
a b c
a c

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If you have the selection as a string, and do care about preserving the original array, perhaps create a new array using grep. 

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{a b c}; say "@x"; my $sel = "b"; my @y = grep { 
+$_ ne $sel } @x; say "@y"'
a b c
a c

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There's other ways to do this depending on your requirements. You should really show us some sample code (see SSCCE): we might be able to suggest a completely different approach when we have a better idea what you're currently doing. Also see the guidelines in "How do I post a question effectively?" for tips on the type of information to provide us with.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Need help with removing values from arrays by kcott
in thread Need help with removing values from arrays by GrizzlyRizly

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