One way:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "my @recs = qw( D1:111:92111 D2:112:92111 D3:111:92111 D4:133:92111 D5:111:90222 D6:112:90222 D7:111:90222 D8:112:90222 ); ;; my %uniques; for my $rec (@recs) { my (undef, $field1, $field2) = split /:/, $rec; ++$uniques{$field2}{$field1}; } dd \%uniques; ;; for my $field2 (reverse sort keys %uniques) { my $field1s = join ',', sort keys %{ $uniques{$field2} }; print qq{'$field2' has unique values '$field1s'}; } " { 90222 => { 111 => 2, 112 => 2 }, 92111 => { 111 => 2, 112 => 1, 133 => 1 }, } '92111' has unique values '111,112,133' '90222' has unique values '111,112'


In reply to Re: find unique values from a file by comparing two columns by AnomalousMonk
in thread find unique values from a file by comparing two columns by sreeragtk86

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