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Who said anything about sorting them? And, this has been very useful when dealing with lists of singletons. :-)

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Re^6: promoting array to a hash
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2004 at 11:51 UTC

    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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