do { my $discard = <$inFH> };

I don't think Anonymous Monk really wants to discard the first line/record of data (update: that was my first thought, too); it's just an illusion created by the peculiar way he or she declares and pre-initializes the  $line variable prior to entering the  while($line){ ... } loop in the OPed code. Note also the odd way the next  $line of data is read at the end of the while-loop in that code.

Update: I must also express my preference for the use of List::Util::uniq() (which used to be in List::MoreUtils — and still is!) rather than the explicit grep-ing to a hash that you're doing: it seems to express intent much more clearly for little or no cost.

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In reply to Re^2: multi dimensional hash by AnomalousMonk
in thread multi dimensional hash by Anonymous Monk

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