Rinku Mahesh wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> I've an array storing some numbers , out of which few are duplicate. > I'd like to skip those which are duplicate and save them in a new > array and same time I wish to count the number of skipped/duplicate > elements. > > Eg:- > > Given Array "fields" {12,12,12,12,17,20,25,100,100,100} > > Expected Output :- Array "unique_elements" {12,17,20,25,100} > > Count Information based upon "Array "fields" & Array "unique_elements" :- > > 12 appeared 4 times > 17 appeared once > 20 appeared once > 25 appeared once > 100 appeared 4 times > > ----------------- > my @fields =(); > my @unique_elements=(); > my %seen = (); $ perl -e' my @fields = ( 12, 12, 12, 12, 17, 20, 25, 100, 100, 100 ); my %seen; my @unique_elements = grep !$seen{ $_ }++, @fields; foreach my $elem ( @unique_elements ) { print "$elem appeared $seen{$elem} times\n"; } ' 12 appeared 4 times 17 appeared 1 times 20 appeared 1 times 25 appeared 1 times 100 appeared 3 times John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>