I'm not entirely clear what you mean by "the order needs to be preserved in the first column". I assume you mean that the 1st occurence of each name should be in the same order. We can save that information in an array, while storing the col2 data in a hash: 
  my @order = ();
  my %values;

  while (<IN>)
  {
    my ($col1, $col2) = split;
    push @order, $col1 unless exists $values{$col1};
    push @{$values{$col1}}, $col2
  }

  # and now print it:
  foreach my $col1 (@order) {
  {
    print join("\t", $col1, @{$values{$col1}}), "\n";
  }

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--Dave

In reply to Re: Removing redundancy by dpuu
in thread Removing redundancy by dr_jgbn

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