Hi Monks,

pop and shift can remove an element from an array at the end or from the beginning. Is there any efficient way to remove an array element in the middle? I'm doing this with the codes below. But just wondering if there is any better way of doing this? ("delete" only sets the element to undef but doesn't remove it from the array)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;

my @FullArray=qw(1 2 3 4 5 6);
print "The number of elements: [",scalar(@FullArray),"]\n";
my $LastElement = $#FullArray;
print "Removing the 3rd element . . .\n";
my @Temp = @FullArray[0..1];
@FullArray = (@Temp, @FullArray[3..$LastElement]);
print "The number of elements: [",scalar(@FullArray),"]\n";
print "The remaining elements:[@FullArray]\n";

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In reply to An efficient way to remove an element from an array by sophate

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