Greetings all,
This works for a small array. Im not sure how well it will scale for 4000 elements, hopefully you have enough memory for it. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @array = (
    { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3},
    { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3},
    { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3},
    { a => 2, b => 2, c => 3},
    { a => 2, b => 1, c => 3}
);
my @unique = do{
    my %seen = map{join(":", values %{$_}), $_} @array;
    values %seen;
};
foreach(@array){
    foreach my $key(sort keys %{$_}){
        print "$key => $_->{$key}:";
    }
    print "\n";
} 
print "\nunique\n";
foreach(@unique){
    foreach my $key(sort keys %{$_}){
        print "$key => $_->{$key}:";
    }
    print "\n";
}

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output 
a => 1:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 1:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 1:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 2:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 2:b => 1:c => 3:

unique
a => 2:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 1:b => 2:c => 3:
a => 2:b => 1:c => 3:

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This code assumes that the hashes have the same keys just different values. If this is not the case change the line 
my %seen = map{join(":", values %{$_}), $_} @array;

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to 
my %seen = map{join(":", keys %{$_}), $_} @array;

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-InjunJoel
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo

In reply to Re: How to get rid of dupes from an array of hashes by injunjoel
in thread How to get rid of dupes from an array of hashes by bravenmd

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