Fellow monasterians,
I'm trying to refine my Perl skills. I can usually write enough code to make something happen, but without being 'obfuscative' I'd like to write more efficient code.

I'm trying to delete duplicate values in a AoH for later use in HTML::Template. This code does the trick, but maybe a round of golf is needed. I did find this elegant solution in Q&A for singling out duplicate values in a straight hash:
my @keys = grep { $hash{$_} eq $value } keys %hash;
but the AoH structure has me a bit confused how this apply. Anyway, here's my code-that-works-but-looks-too-long. Thanks!
#!/usr/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; use strict; my @AoH = ( { page => 'spring' }, { page => 'winter' }, { page => 'fall' }, { page => 'summer' }, { page => 'spring' } ); my @allvalues; for my $i ( 0 .. $#AoH ) { push ( @allvalues, $AoH[$i]{ page } ); } my %seen; my @duplicates = grep { $seen{$_} ++ } @allvalues; for ( @duplicates ) { for my $i ( 0 .. $#AoH ) { if ( $AoH[$i]{ page } eq $_ ){ delete $AoH[$i]{ page }; splice @AoH,$i,1; last; } } } print Dumper (@AoH);

—Brad
"A little yeast leavens the whole dough."

In reply to Is there better way to delete dups in an AoH? by bradcathey

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