Hi monks,

I basically have an array with duplicate values and want to find the first unique element of each type and then print out the corresponding values from two other arrays (where e.g. $name1[0] corresponds to $name2[0] and $percent[0] etc.

My code doesn't work and i'm not sure why not. Please can someone point out my mistake? 

my @uniq;
my %seen = ();

for (my $i=0; $i<@name1; $i++)  {
        push (@uniq, $name1[$i]) unless $seen{$name1[$i]}++;
        # THIS BIT BELOW DOESN'T WORK,  I'M TRYING TO SAY IF  
        # NAME1[$] IS SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME PRINT THE          CORRE
+SPONDING VALUES IN $NAME2 AND $PERCENT
        print "$name1[$i]\t$name2[$i]\t$percent[$i]\n" unless  $seen{$
+name1[$i]}++;
}

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In reply to finding the first unique element in an array by Anonymous Monk

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