Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 17.15 schrieb Eric Walker: > Can't you run uniq from the command prompt to get rid of the duplicate > lines? > > perlnewbie..
[...] Yes I can, $ cat marc21textfile | uniq > outputfile but the OP explicitly wanted a perl script and states > For now, I just want to remove adjacent duplicate fields. from which I concluded that he wants to elaborate the script further, and as a perlnewbie on a perl list I try to answer perl questions. thanks, joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>