Dear Monks, I have two arrays that look like this:

@array1= 1 83 90 120 140 300

@array2= 83 140

I want to delete all the values in array2 out of array1 so array 1 looks like this:

@array1= 1 90 120 300

I have tried using for loops to iterate through the arrays: 

for (my $search =0; $search<scalar @array1; $search++)
    {
    for ($search2 =0; $search2<scalar @array2; $search2++)
        {
    
        
        if($array1[$search] eq $array[$search2])
        {
            this is where I want to do something that deletes the appr
+opriate value from array1
        }
        else
        {
        
        carry on as usual, no deletions
        }

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I tried using undef to delete, and I know unshift/shift/pop/push only work at the start and end of arrays.

Any suggestions, Thanks

In reply to subtract one array from another by Anonymous Monk

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