On Feb 26, Simon K. Chan said:
>The solution to my question is probably dead easy, but the bioperl
>module I'm working on right now has sucked up all by brain juice! ;-)
>
>Let's say I have this array:
>
>@food = qw(milk ham eggs bread eggs milk);
>
>How can I write a script that sticks all UNIQUE elements (occurs only once) into
>another array?
>So, in the above case, @another_array would receive "ham" and "bread"
You'll want to use a hash:
$count{$_}++ for @food;
@unique = grep $count{$_} == 1, keys %count;
Hashes are the answer to many questions.
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