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Finding unique references and then sorting them huh?

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Re^5: promoting array to a hash
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jun 14, 2004 at 11:25 UTC
    Who said anything about sorting them? And, this has been very useful when dealing with lists of singletons. :-)

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      Sorry ;). I was referring to the comment in the OP's code #reduces a file to a sorted list of unique words.

      For the more general case your method is better.

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