Re^2: how to rm an element from an array?

Why not a combination of the two solutions, something like:

sub yoink {
  my ($array_ref, @kill_patterns) = @_;
  foreach my $kp (@kill_patterns) {
    @{$array_ref} = grep $_ ne $kp, @{$array_ref};
  }
}
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That way, you could call it with one or more kill patterns, such as &yoink(\@arr, $kp), or &yoink(\@arr, $kp1, $kp2, $kp3), or so forth... (At least, I think it would work....)

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Re: Re^2: how to rm an element from an array? by blokhead (Monsignor) on Oct 28, 2002 at 03:52 UTC
If you always want to modify the original array, you could use function prototypes (let the scolding begin!) and use `yoink` like a builtin. That way, you wouldn't have to keep passing `\@arr` as a ref like that. However, if you want to keep the original array intact and let `yoink` return a separate copy with the proper yoinkage, then this is certainly not at all what you want. `sub yoink(\@$) { my ($array_ref, $remove) = @_; @$array_ref = grep { $_ ne $remove } @$array_ref; } my @arr = qw/un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit/; # no passing of \@arr -- oh, so pretty! yoink @arr, 'deux'; print "@arr\n"; __END__ un trois quatre cinq six sept huit` [download] blokhead	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: how to rm an element from an array? by tobyink (Canon) on Feb 27, 2020 at 23:30 UTC
Slightly different, but I quite like this: `sub yoink (&\@) { @{$_[1]} = grep !$_[0]->($_), @{$_[1]} } my @arr = qw( aa bb cc ); yoink { $_ eq 'bb' } @arr; print "@arr\n";` [download] toby döt ink	[reply] [d/l]


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