--- Chris Charley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is creating a anonymous hash, correct? > > This is saying > print unless the first field has been seen before > > which is what he wants his code to do. > > $h is a good short notation - but using %seen > instead of %h may make it clearer for you. > > perl -ne 'print unless $seen{(split/:/)[0]}++' > > Chris >
I understand what its doing, but just wanted make sure if its creating a anonymous hash b/c of the { }. So is it b/c u never said yes or no? thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/