Since I just updated my previous suggestion I figured I would Benchmark things...
Not that it matters but I thought you might be interested.
Update There was an issue with how I ran the test before. Here are the updated code and results. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Benchmark;

my $count = 500000;
my $line = "1!2!3!4!5!6!7!8!9";
my @arr = split /!/, $line;
my @exclude = (2,5..8);
my @exclude_lkup;
$exclude_lkup[$_] = 1 for @exclude;

sub ikegami
{
    my @tarr = @arr;
    my @filtered = map $tarr[$_], grep !$exclude_lkup[$_], 0..$#tarr;
}

sub injun
{
    my @tarr = @arr;
    @tarr[@exclude] = ();
    @tarr = grep $_, @tarr;
}

timethese (
  $count,
  {'Ikegami' => '&ikegami',
   'InjunJoel' => '&injun'}
);

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Results in 
Benchmark: timing 500000 iterations of Ikegami, InjunJoel...
   Ikegami: 16 wallclock secs (15.88 usr + 0.00 sys = 15.88 CPU) @ 314
+94.08/s (n=500000)
 InjunJoel: 10 wallclock secs ( 11.05 usr + 0.00 sys =  11.05 CPU) @ 4
+5265.25/s (n=500000)

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Though I'm not versed enough in O(n) notation to tell you why...

-InjunJoel
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo

In reply to Re^4: Splicing Arrays on pre-defined indices by injunjoel
in thread Splicing Arrays on pre-defined indices by harishnuti

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