Re: Clearing Arrays

From: Rob Dixon (rob_at_dixon.port995.com)
Date: 01/12/04 

To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:33:48 -0000

Colin (Support) wrote:
>
> I have this little memory blockage again.
> If I 'push' data from a database into an array to look/manipulate the data
> and then using the same array name, 'push' data into the array from another
> database, the data from the second DB file is added to the data of the
> first. How can I clear the first lot of data and start a fresh with an
> empty array ??

Hi Colin.

Use

  @array = ();

or

  undef @array;

(I like the easy ones!)

Cheers,

Rob

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