I receive a text file that contains multiple copies of data strings. I need to be able to capture each unique string and assign it to a variable. Here is an example of the file: 
NCLEGEND-11-20
NCLEGEND-11-20
NCLEGEND-1-10
NCLEGEND-1-10
NCLEGEND-1-10
NCLEGEND-1-20
NCLEGEND-1-20
.......

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Each entry can be duplicated an unknown number of times. Also the numbers can be any number combination. The only thing that is consistent is the text NCLEGEND and the dashes. So what I need to do is capture each unique entry and assign to a variable. For example: 
$nc1 = NCLEGEND-1-10
$nc2 = NCLEGEND-11-20
$nc3 = NCLEGEND-1-20
...

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Any advice on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
don...

In reply to Capturing Unique Data by donkost

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