c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Test::More tests => 2; use List::MoreUtils 'uniq'; ;; my $v = 'ovedpo15'; my $href = { $v => [5, 3, 2] }; ;; sortuniq ($href->{$v}, 3); is_deeply ($href->{$v}, [2, 3, 5], 'Duplicate added, sorted'); sortuniq ($href->{$v}, 4); is_deeply ($href->{$v}, [2, 3, 4, 5], 'Non-duplicate added, sorted'); ;; sub sortuniq { my $aref = shift @_; @$aref = sort(uniq(@$aref, @_)); } " 1..2 ok 1 - Duplicate added, sorted ok 2 - Non-duplicate added, sorted