in reply to comparing multiple lines in an array.
This could still be inefficient, k could be n^2/2 but still nothing is reported because we only need to report the pairs for which field 1 differs. OTOH, if it's known that if the fields 0, 2, and 3 are equal that then field 1 is different, the algorithm used is optimal:
use strict; use warnings; my @AoA; while (<DATA>) { push @AoA => [split]; } my @sort = sort {$a -> [0] cmp $b -> [0] || $a -> [2] <=> $b -> [2] || $a -> [3] <=> $b -> [3]} @AoA; foreach my $i (0 .. $#sort - 1) { foreach my $j ($i + 1 .. $#sort) { last unless $sort [$i] -> [0] eq $sort [$j] -> [0] && $sort [$i] -> [2] == $sort [$j] -> [2] && $sort [$i] -> [3] == $sort [$j] -> [3]; next if $sort [$i] -> [1] eq $sort [$j] -> [1]; print "[@{$sort[$i]}] and [@{$sort[$j]}]\n"; } } __DATA__ AAA BUY 98 0 BBB SEL 27 1 FFF BUY 43 4 AAA SEL 98 0 CCC SEL 98 0
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