in reply to Unique character in a string?

There's no function for this exactly that I know of, but it's trivial to get counts per character that you can use for this purpose:
my $string = '123456789012345'; my %counts ; $counts{ $_ }++ for split //, $string; foreach my $char ( keys %counts ){ if( $counts{ $char } > 1 ){ print "$char is not unique in $string\n"; }else{ print "$char is unique in $string\n"; } }