in reply to Testing the Uniformity of an Array by its Elements

Something like this perhaps:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my @a = split; my $same = 1; for (1 .. $#a) { if ($a[$_] ne $a[$_ - 1]) { $same = 0; last; } } print "@a - elements are ", $same ? "the same\n" : "different\n"; } __DATA__ A A A A A B C A A B C

Or, if you like something a bit more esoteric:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my @a = split; my %h; @h{@a} = @a; my $same = keys %h == 1; print "@a - elements are ", $same ? "the same\n" : "different\n"; } __DATA__ A A A A A B C A A B C
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