delete function
Deletes a value from a hash
Deletes the specified key(s) and their associated values from a hash. For each key, returns the
deleted value associated with that key, or the undefined value if there was no such key. Deleting from $ENV{}
modifies the environment. Deleting from a hash tied to a DBM file deletes the entry from
the DBM file. (But deleting from a tie()d hash doesn't necessarily
return anything.)
The following deletes all the values of a hash:
foreach $key (keys %HASH) {
delete $HASH{$key};
}
And so does this:
delete @HASH{keys %HASH}
(But both of these are slower than just assigning the empty list, or using undef().)
Note that the EXPR can be arbitrarily complicated as long as the final operation is a hash
element lookup or hash slice:
delete $ref->[$x][$y]{$key};
delete @{$ref->[$x][$y]}{$key1, $key2, @morekeys};
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