Change your loop as follows, and the script will work properly: 

local $" = "\n";
my @array = ( 1 .. 5 );
while( @array ) {
    my $item = shift @array;
    print "Removed value $item from the front of \@array\n";
}
print "Deleted array content:\n@a\n";

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foreach iterates over the array's elements, but you keep changing them, and that has the potential of driving you mad. while() continues looping as long as its conditional is true. @a evaluated in scalar context returns the number of elements remaining in the array. This is a much better test, because as soon as there are zero elements remaining, the while() loop's conditional becomes false, and you stop looping.


Dave

In reply to Re: Array Processing by davido
in thread Array Processing by Rajeshk

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