SPUG: Fw: Uniq in perl

Brian Ingerson BrianI at activestate.com
Sun Mar 18 22:44:38 CST 2001


sub uniq { sort keys %{{ map {($_, 1)} @{$_[0]} }} }

Richard Anderson wrote:

> Does anyone have comments for Mike?
> 
> Richard Anderson, Ph.D.          www.unixscripts.com
> Perl / Oracle / Unix                Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com
> Raycosoft, LLC                        Seattle, WA, USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike" <shivan at ici.net>
> To: "Richard Anderson" <Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:12 PM
> Subject: Uniq in perl
> 
> 
> 
>> This is something I had sitting around. I didn't write it. Its a subroutine 
>> that uniqs an array. I was just wondering if this is the best way to do it 
>> or if anyone has any thing better. Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> ## Usage: &uniq( \@ARRAY );
>> sub uniq {
>> my (@uwork, @unew, $uname);
>>    @uwork = @{$_[0]};
>>    @uwork = sort( @uwork );
>>    @unew  = ( shift @uwork );
>> 
>>    foreach $uname ( @uwork ) {
>>       @unew=( @unew, $uname) if ( $uname ne $unew[ -1 ] );
>>    }
>> 
>>    @{$_[0]}=@unew;
>> }
>> 
>> :wq
>> 
>> 
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