puterboy:

I don't know of a way to do so, but List::MoreUtils has a handy function uniq to handle the first case:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq);
my @a = qw(alpha beta gamma);
my @b = qw(delta kappa gamma);
my @c = uniq(@a, @b);
print join(", ", @c), "\n";

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You'll also find some interesting items in List::Util, Hash::Util and Scalar::Util.

But if you find the temporary a distraction and don't want to include a module for just that purpose, just hide it in a subroutine and go ahead and use the temporary in your subroutine. After all, a temporary isn't necessarily inefficient. So by writing a subroutine with a good name, you can make the code cleaner and self-documenting at the same time, as in the above example. I find that some code can be difficult to read when there's "too much action" happening in a statement, and you may find it difficult to maintain if the statement is too hard to create. So just relax, write a subroutine to do your dirty work, and use it--or include an appropriate module, where someone has already done the dirty work for you!

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Merge arrays - seeking slicker approach by roboticus
in thread Merge arrays - seeking slicker approach by puterboy

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