While this type of problem has been solved many times over, I believe this to be the least processor intensive solution. It creates a hash (%unique) and gives it a key equal to each value in the array by making it equal to 1. Then it takes the keys of %unique and assigns those to an array as its value. Since duplicates will just reassign 1 to the existing key this always removes every duplicate without skipping anything within the array.

Update:Ignore my code, a far better way to do it was suggested below: @unique{ @a} = 1; @awd2 = keys %unique;

my %unique;
foreach my $thingy (@array_with_duplicates)
 { $unique{$thingy} = 1; }
my @array_without_duplicates = keys %unique;
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