Deleting Elements from an Array without their Index Number?

[Spidy]

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Greetings Fellow Monks,

I have an array, that is filled with a number of elements. For example:

my @array = qw(penny coin dutch);

And I want to delete the 'coin' entry, while only having the 'coin' value(not the index number of that element within the array). Does anyone know how exactly I'd do this?

Thanks,
Spidy

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[Corion]

Do you want to remove coin from the array?

my @not_coin = grep { $_ ne 'coin' } @array;

Or do you want to replace coin by undef?

my @not_coin = map { $_ eq 'coin' ? undef : $_ } @array;

[Fletch]

And of course you could also use grep to determine the index if you later would like to use it to remove elements with splice.

my @coin_idx = grep { $array[ $_ ] eq 'coin' } 0..$#array;

[diotalevi]

I like how writing these as map+ternary makes it obvious that grep is just a specialization of map.

my @not_coin = map { $_ eq 'coin' ? () : $_} @array;
# Or do you want to replace coin by undef?
my @not_coin = map { $_ eq 'coin' ? undef : $_} @array;

[Anonymous Monk]

And map is a specialization of foreach+push.

my @not_coin;
foreach (@array) {
   push(@array, $_ eq 'coin' ? () : $_);
}

How does this help?