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Date: 2010feb11
Created: 2009jul4
Language: perl

Q.  How do I delete an element from a perl array?

A.  To delete element $i from array @a do this:

	splice(@a, $i, 1);

This will decrement the number of elements in your array by 1.

There is also a "delete" command in perl but it does not do quite this.

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