Hello Chris, On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Farber < > alexander.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> what is please the most efficient way to delete a slice from the start of >> a longer array (after I have copied it to another array)? >> >> Do I really have to copy a large slice of the array to itself, like in >> the last line here: >> >> pile_array := pile_array || swap_array; >> >> /* here I copy away swap_len elements */ >> new_hand := pile_array[1:swap_len]; >> >> /* here I don't know how to efficiently remove already copied >> elements */ >> pile_array := pile_array[(swap_len + 1):ARRAY_LENGTH(pile_array, >> 1)]; >> >> or is there a better way? >> > > This looks like something for card hands? > > What you are doing seems correct to me. > > actually card hands would be easier - because cards are unique in the deck. But here I have letter hands (like "AAABCDE") in a word game and they are not unique in the pile... Regards Alex
