For Quality purpouses, Markham, Richard 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 04:27 may have been monitored or recorded as:
> How can I simply remove all elements in an array, given that the array > is global and a procedure defines the elements to where the total > number of elements in this array could be very well be less. > > I have tried @array = (); but this seems to affect the arrary in that > it wont take any element assignments afterwards. > well ---snip--- #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @array=qw/1 2 3 4 5 6 a s d f g/; print "Length for blank: ", scalar @array,"\n"; print "$_ " foreach (@array); @array=(); print "\nLength after blank: ", scalar @array,"\n"; ---snap--- does it. @array=(); is the way to go: I guess your proble is somewhere else. > Do I need to iterate through each element and blank the out? "...making easy thigs easy and hard things possible" - heavans no! wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
