dear all respondees,

thanks for your fast responses, i was in the proces of testing it myself, and had got as far as:

my %seen;
my @sorted = sort($a <=> $b) grep{ $seen{$_}++ } map {substr($_,0,1)} 
+@original_array;

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when i realised y'all were on the board already!!

I just wanted to point out that my code above printed out this list:

A,A,B,B,C

So why did it only print out the extra As and Bs? Out of curiosity.

Thanks again for your help.

Sam

In reply to Re: Re: Re: slurping into a substring'ed' array by seaver
in thread slurping into a substring'ed' array by seaver

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