Hello Monks, I'm a newbie and I'm not having much success in attempting to loop trough an array searching for substrings contained in another array and when found, remove them. I tried this 
# @quadruple contains longer strings
# @triple contains shorter strings

foreach $aaaa(@quadruple) {  
            
    $idx = 0;

    while ($triple[$idx]) {

    if ($aaaa =~(/$triple[$idx]/gs)) {push (@common1, $idx); }
 
        $idx++;
                }
                    
              }    


foreach $xx(@common1) {splice (@triple,$xx,1) }

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Summing up: two arrays, both with strings as elements; I need to find which strings in @triple matches as substrings of @quadruple. Example "United Nations Children Fund" in @quadruple should match against "United Nations Children" in @triple. That done, I need to remove the matched string from @triple WITHOUT leaving an undef hole, cause I have to process that array the same way later. Hope it is clear. Thanks a lot for any help and suggestion. Livius

In reply to searching in array elements substrings contained in another array by Anonymous Monk

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