in reply to Unique list of hashes
%students = ( 1111 => { name => "Guy", college => "Yale", }, 2222 => { name => "Gil", college => "Harvard", }, ); [download]
Keep in mind that equally named persons are not that rare, even in the same university.
Cheers Rolf (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
PS: Je suis Charlie!