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  1. Read the file into an array
  2. Create a hash whose keys are the values in the array
  3. Create an array from the keys of the hash
  4. Print the array out to a file
The details are left as an exercise for the reader.

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by ggoebel (Sexton) on Nov 28, 2001 at 01:31 UTC
    my $filename = ...; local $/; open IN, $filename; $text = <IN>; @words{split /\s+/, $text} = undef; @words = keys %words;