anti — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:24:14 +0000

foreach gives you a copy of each element in the array.

your "nifty" regex/substitution replaces the "$variable" in $item (which only consists of $variable) with nothing.
So why not just write $item=""; ?

You can put all items of the array that you want to keep into a new array.

my @array2 = ( );
foreach $item( @array ){
  if( $item ne $variable ){
    push( @array2, ( $item ) );
  }
}

As usually untested, since I don't have perl on this box

ciao
Anti