Hi, here's one way*:
use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';
my %keep;
for my $line ( <DATA> ) {
chomp $line;
my ( $P1, $P2, $I ) = split /,/, $line;
$keep{"$P1$P2"} = $line;
if ( $keep{"$P2$P1"} ) {
delete $keep{"$P2$P1"};
delete $keep{"$P1$P2"};
}
}
say for values %keep;
__DATA__
personG,personH,42
personA,personB,10
personB,personA,190
personA,personC,23
personA,personD,43
personE,personF,10
Output:
$ perl 1226286.pl
personG,personH,42
personE,personF,10
personA,personD,43
personA,personC,23
... add sorting etc. as you wish ...
Hope this helps!
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