Hello providers of great wisdom,

I am just starting off with perl and have what I can only imagion is a really stupid question!

I have two arrays. The one contains a list of files that should exist in a given directory (@shouldexist). The second array contains all the files that actually do exist.

What I want is to print out the something like "The file xxxx.yyy exists!" and then once I have run through all those that do exist (@doexist), print out "These files should be there but aren't: aaaa.bbb, cccc.ddd"

I thought I would do this by deleting from @shouldexist all values in @doexist while printing out the file exists. Once that is done, @shouldexist will only contain values of files that do not exist, and I could then print these.

Ho do I delete from an array based on it's existence in another array? and is this the 'correct' was to do this?
I am not looking for somebody to do this for me, but a some advice.

Thanks!!

In reply to Delete from array by Smaug

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