Re: to avoid redundacy in a file

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Re^2: to avoid redundacy in a file by tadman (Prior) on Jul 15, 2002 at 09:43 UTC
To avoid redundancy in your code, you could do this: `my %seen; while (<>) { next if ($seen{$_}++); print; }` [download] You can do it in one shot, so you might as well. Note that this code eliminates all duplicate lines, not just repeated ones. If you want to just ditch repeats, use this: `my $last; while (<>) { next if ($_ eq $last); $last = $_; print; }` [download] Thus lines "A A A B B B A A C C" will be "A B A C" not "A B C" as in the previous bit.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: to avoid redundacy in a file by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 15, 2002 at 13:55 UTC
You can do it in one shot, so you might as well. That makes your second snippet `my $prev; while (<>) { next if ($_ eq $prev); print $prev = $_; }` [download] `:^)` Wait, we can shorten that.. `my $prev; while (<>) { print $prev = $_ unless $_ eq $prev; }` [download] Hmm.. `my $prev; $_ ne $prev and print $prev = $_ while <>;` [download] Err.. sorry, got carried away for a second.. Perl is just too seductive. Sigh. `:-)` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: to avoid redundacy in a file by tadman (Prior) on Jul 15, 2002 at 19:06 UTC
I was going to condense it down to a single line: `% perl -ne '$p ne$_&&print;$p=$_' ...`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: to avoid redundacy in a file by Purdy (Hermit) on Jul 15, 2002 at 15:00 UTC
This won't do exactly as the AM wants - some lines will be duplicate to the user, but not to Perl: `$ more file.txt N AB TX NC AB N TX NC FOO BAR N AB TX NC $ perl test.pl file.txt N AB TX NC AB N TX NC FOO BAR` [download] The first two lines of the file.txt file are "the same" to the user, but not to your program. zejames' solution works to the AM's needs, as it creates an unique key for the hash, based on the AM's definition of a duplicate. Jason	[reply] [d/l]


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