Hi

this is a way to get the unique elements of an array: 

my @array = (1,1,2,3,2,2);
my %temp = map { $_ => 1 } @array;
my @unique = keys %temp;

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I would like to do away with the temporary hash and would like to write the following seemingly natural perl-code:

my @unique = keys (map { $_ => 1 } @array);

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But to my amazement this does not work with 5.18.1 - the error is "Type of argument to keys on reference must be unblessed hashref or arrayref".

I could swear this used to work some years ago (not really sure), so my question is how can I do this - how can I use keys with such an expression?

Is there really no way to avoid the ugly temporary?

Please note that the above is just an illustration - this is not a question about how to find unique array elements but a question concerning the kinds of expressions I can feed into keys.

In reply to keys with an expression by morgon

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