Hi fellow monks,

I am currently sitting here and am trying to find out what I am doing wrong.

I have an array in which some slices might end with '='. In these cases Id like to join the next slice to the current. I am currently using splice in order to remove slices from my array. For a strange reason I am losing some parts of my array. Can you spot what I am doing wrong?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my @mail = ('Hi i a=','m a cont=','inous <tex=','t> Stop','I ha=
+','ve no','idea w=','hats','wrong','grr');

my $i = 0;
my $y = 0;
while ($mail[$i]) {
#print Dumper \@mail, $i;
        $y = $i + 1;
        while ($mail[$i] =~ s/=$//) {
                $mail[$i] .= $mail[$y];
                my @tmp = splice (@mail,$y,$y); 
                print Dumper \@tmp;
        }
        $mail[$i] =~ s/&lt;/</g; #Some other stuff I need to do
        $mail[$i] =~ s/&gt;/>/g; 
        $i++;
}
print Dumper \@mail;

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The result should look like this 
$VAR1 = [
          'Hi i am a contnous <text> Stop',
          'I ha've no',
          'idea whats',
          'wrong',
          'grr'
        ];

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But in fact Ill get: 
$VAR1 = [
          'Hi i am a continous <text> Stop',
          'I have no',
          'hats',
          'wrong',
          'grr'
        ];

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I would be probably be quicker if I join the array to a big string, remove every '=\n' and exchange my '><' and push everything back into a new array. But I am now stuck with splice as I dont see what my error is.
Hope you can push me into the right direction :)

Thx

Schuk

In reply to splice n dice by Schuk

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