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in thread Newbie Q:How do I compare items within a string?

welcome, and though I've only seen it recommended once here recently, you might want to consider Tie::IxHash -- I did, where preserving order was crucial but a hash was the reasonable solution to avoid having to iterate across 2 arrays concurrently -- and it bailed me out nicely!
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