How do I remove the first five elements of an array?

Question

@array = qw(one two three four five six seven eight);
<Some command here>
print @array;

Answer 1

Here are a few ways, in increasing order of dumbness:

Using a slice:

@array = @array[ 5 .. $#array ];

Using splice:

splice @array, 0, 5;

Using shift:

shift @array for 1..5;

Using grep:

my $cnt = 0;
@array = grep { ++$cnt > 5 } @array;

Using map:

my $cnt = 0;
@array = map { ++$cnt < 5 ? ( ) : $_ } @array;

I'm sure far better hackers than I can come up with even dumber ways. :)

Answer 2

You are looking for the splice builtin:

splice @array, 0, 5;

Answer 3

splice @array, 0, 5; will do it.