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in thread == uniq

can't resist... 
perl -ne '!$s{$_}++ && print' < in > out

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Re (tilly) 3: == uniq
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 13, 2001 at 08:57 UTC
    That executes more slowly. You have to waste time creating new variables because of using postincrement rather than preincrement.
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