use strict; use Data::Dumper; #Remove duplicates from array. my @array = qw/10 20 20 20 30 40 40 40 50 50 50/; print "\n Duplicate array: @array"; ##1) Good my %hash; $hash{$_} = 0 for (@array); # $hash{$_} = () for (@array); #You can do this also my @final = keys (%hash); print "\n Unique Array: @final"; print "\n"; ##2) Best of all my %hash = map { $_ , 1 } @array; my @uniq = keys %hash; print "\n Uniq Array:", Dumper(\@uniq);