in reply to Re^7: Data manipulation on a file
in thread Data manipulation on a file

No, you run it on the array. The argument to uniq is an array or list, not a string.

In your script it will be $outputstring .= "$filer:" . (join ' :', uniq sort @{$filer_hash{$filer}}) . ','; (untested)

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