Jun 22, 2008

Different ways to remove duplicates from array

#!F:\Perl\bin\perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

#Remove duplicates from array.
my @array = qw/10 20 20 20 30 40 40 40 50 50 50/;
print "\n Duplicate array: @array";

1) Good

my %hash;
$hash{$_} = 0 for (@array);
# $hash{$_} = () for (@array); #You can do this also

my @final = keys (%hash);
print "\n Unique Array: @final";
print "\n";


2) Best of all

my %hash = map { $_ , 1 } @array;
my @uniq = keys %hash;
print "\n Uniq Array:", Dumper(\@uniq);


3) Costly process as it involves 'greping'

my %saw;
my @out = grep(!$saw{$_}++, @array);
print "\n Uniq Array: @out \n";

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