To weed an array, use grep. To make your desired deletion from @array,

@array = grep {$_ ne 'joby'} @array;

To get your desired output while deleting, I recommend printf in the grep block:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = ("joby", "andy", "ben", "tom", "bob");

sub ok {$_ ne 'joby'}

print "start\n";
print map {"$_\n"} @array;

print "\nmiddle\n";
my $fmt = "%s %s\n";
@array = grep {    
    my $ok = ok();
    printf $fmt, $_, $ok? 'ok': 'deleted';
    $ok;
} @array;

print "\nend\n";
print map {"$_\n"} @array;

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In reply to Re: Trouble with loops by Narveson
in thread Trouble with loops by jobybett

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