use Data::Dumper; my @AoA = (['a','b','c'], ['a','b','c'], ['a','b','d'], ['a','b','d']); my @uAoA = uniq(@AoA); print Dumper \@uAoA; sub uniq () { my %h; map { $h{join($;, @$_)}++ == 0 ? $_ : () } @_; }