You are generating new hash refs in each iteration so your concept is already doomed to fail. The ref has no relation to the uniqueness of it's values.

Either follow Choroba's suggestion to check the uniqueness of the hash values or try a %seen hash with concanated keys.

Ie checking $seen{join $; , values %$href }++

(see $; in perlvar for details)

(see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-remove-duplicate-elements-from-a-list-or-array%3f too)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

In reply to Re: Removing duplicate hashrefs from an array by LanX
in thread Removing duplicate hashrefs from an array by msomanat

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