Please ignore:
I don't remember where I pinched this one, it might have been around here somewhere ;-)
This shows some different ways to do it and benchmarks:
use Benchmark;

my @list;
for ( 0..9999 )
{
    push @list, sprintf "%d", 100 * rand ;
}


timethese(
    1000, 
    {
        'keys_map_1'        => sub { my @uniq = keys %{{ map {$_ => 1}
+        @list }}; },
        'keys_map_undef'    => sub { my @uniq = keys %{{ map {$_ => un
+def}    @list }}; },
        'grep_seen'         => sub { my %seen; my @uniq = grep ! $seen
+{$_}++, @list; },
    }
);
__END__
Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of grep_seen, keys_map_1, keys_map_u
+ndef...
 grep_seen:     15 wallclock secs (14.86 usr +  0.01 sys = 14.87 CPU) 
+@ 67.23/s (n=1000)
keys_map_1:     50 wallclock secs (46.78 usr +  0.83 sys = 47.61 CPU) 
+@ 21.00/s (n=1000)
keys_map_undef: 43 wallclock secs (42.16 usr +  0.94 sys = 43.09 CPU) 
+@ 23.21/s (n=1000)

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The benchmark results are very much dependant of the size of the array. I took a 10,000 items array as an example.

Update:
To post something reasonable that does implement uniq as in OP's question, here's my solution (somewhat similar to Joost's):
my @b = map {$a[$_] eq $a[$_ + 1] ? () : $a[$_]} 0..$#a;

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pelagic

In reply to Re: Finding unique elements in an array by pelagic
in thread Finding unique elements in an array by Eyck

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