Ok, here's my solution. Instead of grep, it uses map to generate an anonymous hash, which is fed into keys, which is fed into sort.... 
@array = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %{ { map { $_ => 0 } @array } };

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To me it's a pretty clear and readable solution, but others seem to prefer the grep alternatives. To each his own... that ought to be another Perl motto. ;)

Update: Here is a comparison of several of the methods layed out in this thread. My map method isn't the fastest, but I'll defend it on clarity... 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark;

my @testdata;
push @testdata, int rand (100) for 1..500;

sub map_test {
    my @array = @{[ @testdata ]};
    @array = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %{ { map { $_ => 0 } @array } };
    1;
}

sub grep_test {
    my %h;
    my @array = @{[ @testdata ]};
    @array = sort {$a <=> $b} grep { ! $h{$_}++ } @array;
    1;
}

sub do_test {
    my %h;
    my @array = @{[ @testdata ]};
    @array = do { my %h; @h{ @array } = (); sort keys %h };
    1;
}

my $count = 1000;

timethese ( $count, {
    'Map'     => \&map_test,
    'Grep'     => \&grep_test,
    'Do'    => \&do_test
} );

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And the output: 

Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of Do, Grep, Map...
  Do:  8 wallclock secs ( 7.90 usr +  0.00 sys =  7.90 CPU) @ 126.58/s
+ (n=1000)
  Grep:  9 wallclock secs ( 8.74 usr +  0.00 sys =  8.74 CPU) @ 114.42
+/s (n=1000)
  Map: 11 wallclock secs (11.26 usr +  0.00 sys = 11.26 CPU) @ 88.81/s
+ (n=1000)

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Dave


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In reply to Re: Unique Array Items by davido
in thread Unique Array Items by Anonymous Monk

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