Hello, I've discovered that my random hashes based on my above code are not actually random, but are biased based on the original network. What I should do is outlined in my pseudocode, some elements of which I am having trouble with:

#read IDs into %edges using match operator /(\S*)(\t)(\S*)/ and specia
+l variables $1, $3 for each ID per line
#assign IDs as format $edge{ID1,ID2}
#skip edge assignment if ID2,ID1 already exists .. the network needs t
+o be undirected such that ID2-ID1 is equivalent to ID1-ID2 and should
+ therefore not be counted twice
#populate hash of unique IDs from %edges
#create array of unique IDs from hash of unique IDs .... @uniqIDs, $un
+iqIDs[0]=ID1, uniqIDs[1]=ID2 etc .. how do i do this?
#initialize degree counter hash (IDs are keys, values are degrees) usi
+ng @uniqIDs with foreach
#go through %edges and increment %counter for each ID
#generate random network with rand(int(scalar(@uniqIDs))), discard ran
+dom picks if they already exist or represent undirected equivalent
#initialize random network degree counter hash, and then count random 
+network degrees as before
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I'm already stuck at how to skip an edge assignment if $2,$1 exists. Then, how can I populate a new hash of unique IDs? Again, the problem of excluding something if it already exists.

my $filename = "edges.txt";   #Set a variable for our file name
open(my $fh, "<", $filename) or die "Can't open file $filename.";  #Op
+en the file edges.txt
    while (<$fh>) {
      if ($_ =~ m/(\S+)\t(\S+)/) {           #Match the IDs in the fil
+e to $1 and $2
        $edge{$1,$2}= $holder;             #assign IDs as format $edge
+{ID1,ID2}
close $fh;   #Close the file edges.txt
   my @list = keys %uniqedge;
   print "@list\n";          #Prints the list of keys, but they are un
+i-directional (i.e. repeated for ID1-ID2 and ID2-ID1)
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Once I have these steps, I can proceed to counting and using the unique IDs list to create my random networks.

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