Delete the first entry of an array.

[Peter W A Wood]

I have an array which contains a second array. (myArray[“numbers”][]). The numbers array is a traditional array with elements 1..n. I want to remove the first element of the numbers array and shuffle all the others up. Is there a simple way of doing this in LiveCode (equivalent to the shift() function in JavaScript)?

I looked in the dictionary and found delete <variable> but couldn't get it to work, perhaps because I am trying to do this in a function that takes the array as an argument.

The essence of the function is:

function shift @pList
  local tItem
  put pList[“numbers”][1] into tItem
  delete pList[“numbers”] 1					## Is this the correct syntax?
  return tItem
end shift

If I can get delete to remove the first element of the array, will it automatically change the index of the remaining entries?

Thanks in advance.

Peter