removing all elements in an array

[Richard Markham]

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.

Do I need to iterate through each element and blank the out?

[Randy W. Sims]

On 2/4/2004 10:27 PM, Markham, Richard wrote:

> 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.
>
> Do I need to iterate through each element and blank the out?
>

@array = ();

is what you want. What kind of assignments are producing errors, and
what errors are you getting?

Randy.

[Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan]

On Feb 4, Markham, Richard said:

>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.

Then you're doing something wrong.

@array = ();

is the proper way to do it. Show us your code.

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[Wolf Blaum]

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