>From http://iis1.cps.unizar.es/Oreilly/perl/cookbook/ch04_07.htm, is this really the best way to ensure an *ordered* list contains only unique values? It seems like it could/should be easier. I wonder why the examples don't use my.
%seen = (); @uniq = (); foreach $item (@list) { unless ($seen{$item}) { # if we get here, we have not seen it before $seen{$item} = 1; push(@uniq, $item); } } Faster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>