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JavaFan has the right idea. This is more easily done by a properly formatted SQL select statement.

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my @alljobData = ();
my $dbh = DBI->connect(...);
my $stmt = "SELECT JOBNAME, STATUS, TIMESTAMP, COMMENT FROM YOUR_TABLE
+S WHERE JOBNAME = ? AND STATUS = ? ORDER BY TIMESTAMP DESC";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($stmt);
foreach my $job (@jobname){
  my $rc = $sth->execute($job, "HOLD");
  #either check for an error or let failing on fetch do that for you
  if(my @thisjobData = $sth->fetchrow_array){
    push(@allJobData, @thisjobData);
  }
}
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You could actually write the sql in a way that it would pull only the most current row for every job name in a single statement, but I don't know the syntax off the top of my head.

In reply to Re: Help with removing dupes from a string with perl by jrsimmon
in thread Help with removing dupes from a string with perl by CG_man

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