Oy, young people these days! Always with the hashes it is. Like memory grows on trees! When I was your age, we had no RAM. We had 4K of core and we were thankful for it!

Since the input is sorted, you just need one record of "lookahead":

use strict; my $prev; my $dup=0; my ($ifile, $ufile, $dupfile) = qw(data uniq dups); open(IN, $ifile) or die "Cannot open $ifile: $!\n"; open(UNQ,">", $ufile) or die "Cannot open $ufile: $!\n"; open(DUP, ">", $dupfile) or die "Cannot open $dupfile: $!\n"; while (<IN>) { if (defined($prev)) { if ($prev eq $_) { $dup = 1; print DUP $prev; } else { if ($dup) { print DUP $prev; $dup = 0; } else { print UNQ $prev; } } } $prev = $_; } if (defined($prev)) { if ($dup) { print DUP $prev; $dup = 0; } else { print UNQ $prev; } }

In reply to Re: Separate duplicate and unique records by Thelonius
in thread Separate duplicate and unique records by wsee

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