Update Oops. I didn't see the "preserve order" bit. In that case, this won't do exactly what you want. Sorry. See the other (better) solutions...

This should do what you want... 

use strict;

my %data = ();
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my ($col1, $col2) = split /\s+/;
    $data{$col1} .= "$col2 ";
}

print "$_: $data{$_}\n" foreach (sort keys %data);

__DATA__
text1 text-a
text2 text-b
text3 text-c
text1 text-d
text3 text-e
text3 text-f

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Here's the explanation:
  1. The while loop goes through each line of input. In this case, each line in <DATA>.
  2. The line is then split on any whitespace into the two columns.
  3. To ensure uniqueness, the first column is used as the key name in a hash and the second column is appended to that.
  4. Then it prints each key, and its value using a foreach statement. The keys are also sorted.

In reply to Re: Removing redundancy by The Mad Hatter
in thread Removing redundancy by dr_jgbn

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