in reply to Killing dupes

Here's a non-perl solution if you're on a Un*x box. Since you already have the data in a file one per line you could do something like: 
sort flat-file.txt | uniq > uniqued.txt

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perl -l -e "eval pack('h*','072796e6470272f2c5f2c5166756279636b672');"

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Re: Re: Killing dupes
by Hofmator (Curate) on Aug 20, 2001 at 14:29 UTC

    or without the pipe, there's (normally) a command line switch for unique sorting ... sort -u flat-file.txt > uniqued.txt

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