ikegami's right: that's about as clean as you'll get.

If you want to preserve order, I'd use a hash lookup to determine wether to add the elements instead of using unique; that should be a tiny bit faster but not as good looking. If you don't care about the order, ikegami's solution is better. 

my (%country_seen,%state_seen,%city_seen);
 for my $location (@locations){
        next if ($location eq 'HEADING');
        
        my ($country,$state,$city) = split /,/, $location;
        push @countries, $country unless $country_seen{$country}++;
        push @states, $state unless $state_seen{$state}++;
        push @cities, $city unless $city_seen{$city}++;
 }

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In reply to Re: cleaner code .... by Joost
in thread cleaner code .... by tdevil76

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