How about this hack? This way it still maintains it's some what sorted order. Tested on Win32
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my (@array, %hash);
while (<DATA>) {
    push (@array, $_) unless (defined($hash{$_}));
    $hash{$_} = 1;
}

print join("", @array);

__DATA__
B1 name;B1 Bmk;B1 host;B1 arch;B1 mem;B1 dvr;B1 arw;
SomeName;Blondie;server15;unix;1;1;32
SomeName;Blondie;server15;unix;2;2;43
SomeName;Blondie;server15;unix;3;3;54
SomeName;Blondie;server15;unix;4;4;65:
B1 name;B1 Bmk;B1 host;B1 arch;B1 mem;B1 dvr;B1 arw;
SomeName;Blondie;server12;unix;1;5;76
SomeName;Blondie;server12;unix;2;6;87
SomeName;Blondie;server12;unix;3;7;89
SomeName;Blondie;server12;unix;4;8;09;

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In reply to Re: Re: Removing Duplicate Lines from a File by softworkz
in thread Removing Duplicate Lines from a File by johnirl

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