The specifics in this reply are slightly less than ideal. When Perl sees you using $` and $' even once it assumes you might want to use these variables for each and every regular expression thereafter.

This is considered a bad thing because Perl will then copy the prematched text and the postmatched text into $` and $' every time it sees a regular expression. This is okay in this kind of example because the data we're dealing with appears to be small. However it rapidly becomes inefficient once we start dealing with longer strings.

A similar, slightly more efficient version can be written: 

foreach (@sorted_data)
{
    /(.*?)\.(.*)/;
    $hash{$1} = $2;
}
# print hash here by key value - only latest entry exists

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It may also be worth wondering why a regular expression is needed at all: 

foreach (@sorted_data) 
{
    my ($key, $value) = split /\./, $_, 2;
    $hash{$key} = $value;
}
# print hash here by key value - only latest entry exists

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Hope this helps,

jarich

In reply to Re: Re: removal of dupes using a hash by jarich
in thread removal of dupes using a hash by shaezi

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