Re: splice

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From: nobull
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:00

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"Amri, Kuross [WOLL:4009-I:EXCH]" <kamri@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

>         I have another dillemma. I am using a splice function to delete
> an old
> entry in an array after creating a new one. Pretty basic as far as edit
> functions go. 
>         However, to delete an old entry you need to know its position in
> the
> array. I don't know how to figure out its position so I can delete it.

Not with splice anyhow.  You can with grep.

@list = grep { $_ ne $item_to_delete } @list, $item_to_add;

However you should consider using a hash rather than an array if the
list is likely to be long and if the order is not significant.

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