G'day sroux,

Given the size of your data, processing speed may be a factor. The following may be faster than other proposed solutions; but do Benchmark with realistic data.

I've used the same input data as others have done. 

$ cat pm_11140211_flatfile.dat
head1|head2|head3
val1|val2|val3
val1|val4|val5
val6|val4|val5
val2|val7|val5
val3|val7|val3

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My code takes advantage of the fact that when duplicate keys are used in a hash assignment, only the last duplicate takes effect. A short piece of code to demonstrate: 

$ perl -e '
    use Data::Dump;
    my %x = (a => 1, b => 3, c => 4);
    my %y = (b => 2, c => 3, d => 4);
    my %z = (%x, %y);
    dd \%z;
'
{ a => 1, b => 2, c => 3, d => 4 }

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So there's no need for %seen, uniq(), or any similar mechanism, to handle duplicates.

Also note that I've used bind_columns(). See the benchmark in "Text::CSV - getline_hr()".

The code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use Text::CSV;

my $infile = 'pm_11140211_flatfile.dat';
my $csv = Text::CSV::->new({sep_char => '|'});

open my $in_fh, '<', $infile;
my $row = {};
my @cols = @{$csv->getline($in_fh)};
$csv->bind_columns(\@{$row}{@cols});
my %data = map +($_, {}), @cols;

while ($csv->getline($in_fh)) {
    $data{$_} = { %{$data{$_}}, $row->{$_}, 1 } for @cols;
}

print "$_: ", join(', ', sort keys %{$data{$_}}), "\n" for sort @cols;

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The output:

head1: val1, val2, val3, val6
head2: val2, val4, val7
head3: val3, val5

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— Ken

In reply to Re: Get unique fields from file by kcott
in thread Get unique fields from file by sroux

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