Here's an 'efficient' method if you're completely unconcerned about maintaining array order. (This was published by someone else recently in response to a strikingly similar question.) 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my @ra = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
 print qq{@ra};
 for my $i (2, 0, -2, -1) {
   $ra[$i] = $ra[-1];
   --$#ra;
   print qq{removed element at index $i: @ra};
   }
"
0 1 2 3 4 5
removed element at index 2: 0 1 5 3 4
removed element at index 0: 4 1 5 3
removed element at index -2: 4 1 3
removed element at index -1: 4 1

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In reply to Re: An efficient way to remove an element from an array by AnomalousMonk
in thread An efficient way to remove an element from an array by sophate

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