On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does anyone know of a regular expression to get rid off all the repeated > data, so that i just have a list as follows
I don't know a regex, but you could use a hash to ensure that you only have one instance of each item: my %data; while (my $line = <FILE>){ chomp $line; $data{$line} = 1; } print keys %data; -- Nigel Wetters, Senior Programmer, Development Group Rivals Digital Media Ltd, 151 Freston Road, London W10 6TH Tel. 020 8962 1346 (direct line), Fax. 020 8962 1311 http://www.rivalsdm.com/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]