Wow, I surely didn't now it was this difficult to remove array elements. I thought deleting them actually removed it. But if you still haven't got it working, why not instead build a new array with just the good elements? You don't have to worry about deleting anything. 
my @original = ("", undef, "perl hungry", "", "twenty");
my @original_kept;

foreach(@original)
{
my $what_we_removed = shift(@original); # take our first item off and 
+keep it
  if (defined $what_we_removed && $what_we_removed ne "")
  {
     push(@original_kept, "$what_we_removed");
  }
}

print join("\n", @orignal_kept);

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In reply to Re: Removing null values from within an array by sulfericacid
in thread Removing null values from within an array by coldfingertips

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