On Wed, January 8, 2020 7:57 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > This is a relatively modern feature. How old is your Perl? On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:39 PM Greg London <[email protected]> replied:
> This is for a script at work > And they run perl 5.8 So you need a really old book as your reference :-/ (I trust you have a dog-eared copy of the blue camel.) If you haven't yet, you should bookmark https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/index-language.html (or 5.8.4 or whatever it is) at work. (Uri's advice from the Perldoc that it isn't even a good idea to delete from an Array on a modern perl is well-taken also, but as Randal points out, doesn't affect your legacy perl.) So you'll need to code this another way. Uri's suggested *splice*() was indeed available in 5.8.x -- but was upgraded in 5.14. and later, so rely on the old documentation <https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8//functions/splice.html>, as latest docs may advise on corner-cases wrongly. // Bill consultant at The Perl Shop _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
