I bet there is a more elegant way to do this (hey, after all this is perl and there are a 1000 ways to skin a ...) but this was the quickest thing I could come up with.

I found out that I have to introduce a temporary variable, because the first splice modifies @a 

sub rm ($@) { my ($e,@a) = @_;
        my @t = @a;
 
        (splice(@a,0,--$e),splice(@t,++$e));
}
my @array = (1..10);
#
# remove the 5th Element
#
@array = &rm(5,@array);
print join ("\n",@array) . "\n";

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

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