Re: Checking if an item exists in an array before adding a record to it.

I suspect using grep would be even slower.

either use grep on the array if you want to check if something's already in it as you suggest yourself
or throw the dupes out when you are done populating the array (if order does not matter)
or (again if order does not matter) use a hash all the way through and use keys %hash to get a list of unique entries instead of the array.

Cheers, Sören

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