Re: Tidying up repeated data

2002-10-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Jonathan Musto wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > If i have a text file with a list of values i.e. > > ght-Skem > ght-Skem > ght-Skem > hjy-TOB > hjy-TOB > hjy-TOB > etcetc > > does anyone know of a regular expression to get rid off all the repeated > data, so that i just have a list as follo

Re: Tidying up repeated data

2002-10-21 Thread Nigel Wetters
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

RE: Tidying up repeated data

2002-10-21 Thread Kipp, James
if your just looking to remove dup lines from a file, this should work: open (F, "yourfile") or die "..."; my %uniq; $uniq{$_}++ while ; print for keys %uniq; > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jonathan.musto@;bt.com] > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:09 AM > To: [EM