Uhm... maybe: 

for ($i=$elementToRemove; $i<$#array;;){
   $array[$i] = $array[++$i];
   $array[$i] = NULL;
}

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Now, check my syntax, this is a rough draft. Also, setting that element to NULL is an attempt to clear it. I'm hoping, but am not sure, that if you set the last element in an array to NULL, Perl will resize the array and free that memory. I don't imagine there are any problems with setting an element in the middle of the array to NULL.

Could be, so check. I don't remember if $#array by itself will return the size or the last subscript or anything at all. I want the last subscript. Please, double check this.

But your question was so short, and the answer seemed so obvious, that I think I'm missing something. Do you perhaps have a real issue that I'm not addressing? I'm not saying anything that can not be very easily put together with 2 minutes of browsing in even the worst of Perl manuals.

-T

In reply to RE: Removing an element from an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread Removing an element from an array by Anonymous Monk

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