Tag Archives: uniq

Perl array remove duplicate values – Update

Great news! I used the function from yesterdays post in a production script today. the script searches a log file on a 60 min basis and grab usernames and passwords, removes the dupes and enters the usernames and passwords to … Continue reading

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Removing duplicates from a Perl array – really this time

My last post got a bit sidetracked and i didn’t do a simple removal of dupes from an array. As I said last time, hashes cannot have duplicate keys, so the easiest way to do this is to simply create … Continue reading

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Perl and ‘uniq’ – de-duping arrays and other tricks

There comes a time when everybody needs to de-dupe an array, or just simulate the UNIX uniq command. Here at $dayjob, for example, we do quite a lot of UNIX shell commands to look up the number of times has … Continue reading

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