my @list = (@lines); $array_element = 0; foreach my $line (@lines) { my @fields = split /,/ $line; if ( $fields[2] eq '1' || $fields[2] eq '0' ) { #@arr1 = do {"@fields[4]\n"}; splice @arr1, arr1[$array_element], 1; } $array_element++; } my @out = uniq @arr1; print "this is @out";