hi monks,

another rookie perl question... i have an array that i populate with the following code:

 push @positions, $read->end + 1, $base;

the first entry ($read->end + 1) is a number and the second entry is a string that can be an A,G,C, or T, so each line of this array is a number/string pair.

i would like to remove every line of this array that contains a G or a T as the string. after doing that, i would like to get rid of the strings altogether, so i just have an array with one column representing the number. how do i go about this?

i've looked into the pop function, which seems relevant for the second half of what i want to do, but i am unsure about how to do the filtering, namely accessing the second element in each line of the array. any advice would be much appreciated!

In reply to filtering an array by prbndr

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