Monks,

I have the following sub I wrote to remove duplicates from an array. I want to modify it so I can pass the array by reference and modify the contents of the referenced array. Thus benefits should be two-fold, saving of stack memory (handy for larger arrays) but also don't need to return a value as the actual passed array it modified.

Can anyone help me as I don't know how to do this. My original code it below:

sub util_remove_duplicates(@)
{
  my %hash;
  undef %hash;
  @hash{@_} = ();
  return keys %hash;
}

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Arun

In reply to Removing Duplicates from Array Passed by Reference by arunhorne

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