in reply to Deleting specific element in array in FOREACH loop

There are lots of ways to do it. You could build up a new array as you go with only the values you want to keep. You could use an index and splice. For example (untested): 
for (my $i = $#array; $i > -1; $i--) {
  #  Delete element here if it matches.
  splice @array, $i, 1;
}

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You need to count backwards here so that you don't miss any entries when they shift around.

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Re^2: Deleting specific element in array in FOREACH loop
by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 15, 2006 at 20:01 UTC 
    for my $index (reverse 0 .. $#array)

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    is a more Perlish way to achieve that. It is clearer and avoids fence posts.

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      The downside is that
      for my $index (reverse 0 .. $#array)
      creates a list as large as the array, whereas
      for (my $i = $#array; $i > -1; $i--)
      and
      for (my $i = @array; $i--; )
      have no memory cost. That said, it usually doesn't matter.

      On the plus side,
      for my $index (reverse 0 .. $#array)
      could be slower. It is optimized to loop backwards instead of actually calling reverse.

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        for modern versions of perl, this is no longer true for normal ranges. does it still create the array for 'reverse' ranges?
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