I need some help. I can't figure out how to omit duplicate IDs in the output 
file.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl

require 5.000;

my %tags = ();

my $input = $ARGV[0];
my $output = $ARGV[1];

open (FILE, "< $input") or die "cannot open $input: $!\n";
  open (OUTPUTFILE, "> $output") or die "cannot open $input: $!\n";
    chomp(my @lines = <FILE>);
    my @chars = map {
       my ($id) = m{<a id=(\w+)>};
       [ $_, $id, scalar $id =~ /^\d+$/ ];
    } @lines;
    my @sorted_chars = sort {
       $b->[2] <=> $a->[2]
       or
       ($a->[2] ? $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] : $a->[1] cmp $b->[1])
       or
       $a->[0] cmp $b->[0]
    } @chars;
    my @result = map { $_->[0] } @sorted_chars;
    print OUTPUTFILE "$_\n" for @result;
  close OUTPUTFILE;
close FILE;



IN.SRT
-----------

<a id=ab>...
<a id=1>...
<a id=ab>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=fa>...
<a id=5>...
<a id=13>...
<a id=20>...
<a id=fa>...
<a id=3>...
<a id=7>...
<a id=5>...
<a id=21>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=bc>...
<a id=22>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=fa>...
<a id=25>...
<a id=8>...
<a id=24>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=ab>...
<a id=16>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=bc>...





OUT.SRT
---------------

<a id=1>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=2>...
<a id=3>...
<a id=5>...
<a id=5>...
<a id=7>...
<a id=8>...
<a id=13>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=15>...
<a id=16>...
<a id=20>...
<a id=21>...
<a id=22>...
<a id=24>...
<a id=25>...
<a id=ab>...
<a id=ab>...
<a id=ab>...
<a id=bc>...
<a id=bc>...
<a id=fa>...
<a id=fa>...
<a id=fa>...





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