Re: Removing elements from structures

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 04:20:57PM -0300, Roberto Hernandez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been looking through the documentation, but can't find how to 
> remove an element from a structure.
> 
> Suppose I define the following:
> 
> a.name = "Bob"
> a.lastname = "Hope"
> a.phone = "555-5555"
> 
> I tried clear(a.phone), but that doesn't remove the element.

If memory servers, you cannot.  Write yourself a little wrapper which copies
everything but the element you want to remove in a temp structure, remove
the original, copy the them into the original name and remove the temp one.

Dirk

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