On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 05:10 , Andrew Rosolino wrote:
> Say I have an array that contains! > > @array = qw( cool cool dog dog dog ); > > Now I want to sum that up, so that the array only has > 1 COOL and 1 DOG, so it would contain! > > @array = qw( cool dog ); we just went around this on the beginner's mailing list and a bench mark of the basic solutions is up at: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/benchMarkingDeDuping. txt Jenda offered up the really slick one: ### my @new_array; ### { my %h; @h{@array} = (); @new_array = keys %h; } ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
