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Old 12-28-2012
Question Removing elements from an array

Hi I have two arrays :
@arcb= (450,625,720,645);
@arca=(625,645);
I need to remove the elements of @arca from elements of @arcb so that the content of @arcb will be (450,720).
Can anyone sugget me how to perform this operation?

The code I have used is this :
Code:
my @arcb= (450,625,720,645); 
my @arca=(625,645);



foreach my $a (@arca){
for(my $i=0;$i<scalar(@arcb);$i++){
delete $arcb[$i] if($a==$arcb[$i]);
    }
}
my $length = @arcb;
print "@arcb";
print "length is $length \n";

The problem is when I used this ,the length of the array is not changing even after the deletion Smilie
# 2  
Old 12-28-2012
You don't mention your system/shell, but I guess it's csh, isn't it? While not knowing anything about csh, in bash this will work:
Code:
$ IFS=$'\n'; echo "${arcb[*]}"|grep -v "${arca[*]}"
450
720

# 3  
Old 12-28-2012
Hi.
Code:
               Deleting an array element effectively returns that position of
               the array to its initial, uninitialized state.  Subsequently
               testing for the same element with exists() will return false.
               Also, deleting array elements in the middle of an array will
               not shift the index of the elements after them down.  Use
               splice() for that.  See "exists".

Excerpt from perldoc -f delete, q.v. See also perldoc perldoc to see how to solve problems such as this.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
# 4  
Old 12-28-2012
As you can read here you'd better no more use delete
Instead, you can use the push instruction

Hereafter please find a solution using push and an extra array to do the trick :
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
 
my @arcb=(450,625,720,645);
my @arca=(625,645);
my @arcc;
 
foreach my $b (@arcb) {
  my $flg=0;
  foreach my $a (@arca) {
    if($a==$b) {
      $flg=1;
      last;
    }
  }
  push(@arcc,$b) if($flg==0);
}
 
@arcb = @arcc;
 
my $length = @arcb;
print "@arcb";
print "length is $length \n";

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