On Friday 27 May 2005 01:22 pm, John Doe wrote: > 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
Ok, the perlnewbie tag is for me, not you. Seems like you got upset. sorry for the misunderstanding.. perlnewbie.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>