Don't use an array for @shouldexist, but use a hash for that: 
my %shouldexist = map { $_ => undef } @shouldexist;

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Now you have a hash in which the filenames are keys. Since we're only interested in the existence of a key, I've used the value "undef" as the value associated with the key.

Then, whenever you find that a file exists, you remove the corresponding key from the hash. 

delete $shouldexist{ $filename };

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Then, when you're done, you check which keys are still left: that is then your list of files that are missing: 
print "Missing:\n";
foreach (sort keys %shouldexist) {
   print "$_\n";
}

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Note that I added the "sort" here because the order of the keys in the hash is indeterminate (even random in 5.8.1).

I leave the checking for the existence of the file as an excercise to the reader.

Liz

In reply to Re: Delete from array by liz
in thread Delete from array by Smaug

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