[mplspm]: In a sorted list [better]

[Jeff Gleixner]

> For
> the curious, my bigger problem was to take all the words in a
> 16 MB text
> file (there was one word on each line) and remove all of the
> duplicates. [...]


Unless you need to use Perl for some specific reason (an
assignment for class? :-), you could simply use Unix utilities
already written to do what you need.

% sort < file > uniq -o new_file

It won't get any faster than that.. :-)

See ya


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