Actually, the above algorithm is not particularly suitable for the OP's needs. Its relevent as a indicator on what to do but it doesnt solve his problem in the most efficient way.

If you read the code, and assume that @arr1 is large, without many duplicates, and that @arr2 is small without many duplicates either, then it would appear that the above will iterate over the values of @arr1 twice. Also the above has the problem that the resulting array will have no ordering relationship to the original one. I think a superior method is the one I posted in my orphaned reply. Or rather a minor variant that doesn use hash slices. 

my %remove;
$remove{$_}++ for @arr2;
@clean=grep !$remove{$_},@arr1;

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This code will only walk @arr1 and @arr2 once. Note that this is one of the weaknesses in 'big O notation'. Both of these solutions are O(N), however, the worst cases of both are 2(N+M) and N+M, thus the later has a much better worst case even though they are the same order of solution.

BrowserUk posted a benchmark that I will mod to benchmark the various solutions, including the one above.

Regards,

--- demerphq
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In reply to Re: Re: How to splice out multiple entries from an array by demerphq
in thread How to splice out multiple entries from an array by Ya

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