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my @test = qw(camel aplaca peguin aplaca 
              monkey camel camel");
my @redundant;
for (@test) {
   next if grep ("$_", @redundant);
   push (@redundant, $_);
}
print "@redundant\n";

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Prints: camel

Update: zdog asked about this in a private CB message so here goes. tomhukins is not quite correct in his description of the problem. What happens is this:

grep ("$_", @redundant) in a scalar context returns the number of times the expression $_ is true for all the elements of @redundant. But the first time through, there are no elements in @redundant so $_ is evaluated zero times.

So the first time through the loop, the "next if" fails and "camel" is pushed onto @redundant. Each time through the loop after than, @redundant does contain an element and the grep in a scalar context returns 1 meaning "for the one element in @redundant, $_ (the element 'camel') is true."

(Note: I am aware of the discussion about whether to say that grep always returns a list but that a list in scalar context evaluates to the number of elements or whether to say that grep in a scalar context returns a number. perlfunc says: "In scalar context, [grep] returns the number of times the expression was true.")

In reply to Re: (zdog) Re: Finding Redundant values in arrays by dvergin
in thread Finding Redundant values in arrays by Anonymous Monk

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