Re^3: Removing a string-element from an array of strings

[kcott]

Treating your code as some sort of sentient entity which "refuses to work" will get you nowhere. Your code is no doubt doing exactly what you asked it to do; the problem will be what you asked.

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Your requirements have changed. You now additionally want "... and cat it to the end of the array."; however, you don't say what happens if the element to be removed doesn't exist.

There are a lot posts involving regexes. Based on what you've told us so far, I see no need for the overhead of firing up the regex engine.

I originally provided:

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{A B C D}; @x = grep $_ ne "B", @x; say "@x"'
A C D

With your new additional requirement, you could code:

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{A B C D}; my $y = "B"; @x = (grep($_ ne $y, @x),
+ $y); say "@x"'
A C D B

If "B" is not found, you perhaps want

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{A B C D}; my $y = "Z"; @x = (grep($_ ne $y, @x),
+ $y); say "@x"'
A B C D Z

or

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{A B C D}; my $y = "Z"; @x = (grep($_ ne $y, @x),
+ $y)[0..$#x]; say "@x"'
A B C D

Which still works if "B" is found:

$ perl -E 'my @x = qw{A B C D}; my $y = "B"; @x = (grep($_ ne $y, @x),
+ $y)[0..$#x]; say "@x"'
A C D B

Because these methods simply use string inequality (ne) you won't encounter problems with characters being special to a regular expression:

$ perl -E 'my @history = qw{Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-option
+s(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8)}; my $choice = "dhcp-options(5)
+"; @history = (grep($_ ne $choice, @history), $choice); say "@history
+"'
Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8) dhcp-o
+ptions(5)

$ perl -E 'my @history = qw{Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-option
+s(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8)}; my $choice = "not-found(0)"; 
+@history = (grep($_ ne $choice, @history), $choice); say "@history"'
Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-options(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-pa
+ckages(8) not-found(0)

$ perl -E 'my @history = qw{Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-option
+s(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8)}; my $choice = "dhcp-options(5)
+"; @history = (grep($_ ne $choice, @history), $choice)[0..$#history];
+ say "@history"'
Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8) dhcp-o
+ptions(5)

$ perl -E 'my @history = qw{Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-option
+s(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-packages(8)}; my $choice = "not-found(0)"; 
+@history = (grep($_ ne $choice, @history), $choice)[0..$#history]; sa
+y "@history"'
Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache(3) dhcp-options(5) BN_add_word(3) audit-pa
+ckages(8)