Here we go, implementing it revealed more ambiguities

use v5.12; use warnings; use Data::Dump; my @in = do { local $/; eval <DATA> }; sub DBG { ddx @_ if 0 } # debug DBG "INPUT"=> @in; my @out; my $similarity = 3; # number equal elements my $last = shift @in; my $sum = [ @$last ]; # init while ( my $cur = shift @in ) { my @zeros = grep { $cur->[$_] == 0 } 0..1; my @same = grep { $cur->[$_] == $last->[$_] } 0..$similarity-1; if ( @zeros and @same == $similarity ) { my $non_zero = 1 - $zeros[0]; DBG "SUM" => $last, $cur, \@zeros, $non_zero ; $sum->[$non_zero] += $cur->[$non_zero]; } else { DBG "OUT" => $last, $cur, \@zeros; push @out, $sum; $last = $cur; $sum = [ @$last ]; # init } } push @out, $sum; dd @out; __DATA__ [ -1, 5, 1 ], [ 0, 5, 1 ], [ 0, 5, 1 ], [ 1, 5, 1 ], # separated repetitions # [ 0, 5, 1 ], # [ 0, 5, 1 ], [ 3, 4, 1 ], [ 5, 1, 1 ], # Testcases for ambiguities #[ 1000,0,1], #[ 5, 0, 1000 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 5, 0, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ 0, -5, 1 ], [ -23, -64, 0 ], [ -5, 0, 1 ], [ -5, 1, 1 ],

( [-1, 5, 1], [0, 10, 1], [1, 5, 1], [3, 4, 1], [5, 1, 1], [30, 0, 1], [0, -45, 1], [-23, -64, 0], [-5, 0, 1], [-5, 1, 1], )

Cheers Rolf
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update

fixed final push @out, $sum;


In reply to Re^2: Summing up duplicate lines by LanX
in thread Summing up duplicate lines by oko1

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