Re: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map

The FAQ How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array? can be adapted for use here.

my %seen;
@partTuples = grep { ! $seen{$_->{id}}++ } @partTuples;
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Re^2: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by rashley (Scribe) on Oct 30, 2006 at 16:33 UTC
Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by rashley (Scribe) on Oct 30, 2006 at 21:18 UTC
Just for the sake of intelectual growth, how could one tweak this to eliminate duplicates of id/versions pairs, instead of just id?	[reply]
Re^4: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by johngg (Canon) on Oct 30, 2006 at 22:28 UTC
You just need to make a key for the `%seen` hash that is your id and version joined together in some way. Here I join them with a colon use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @partTuples = ( q{abc,1.1,apple}, # 1st element q{def,3.6,orange}, # no dups. so OK q{abc,1.5,pear}, # OK id only dup. q{abc,1.1,kiwi}, # dup. id and version q{ghi,1.2,peach}, # no dups. so OK q{xyz,1.1,plum}, # OK version only dup. ); my %seen = (); my @uniquePTs = grep {! $seen{join q{:}, $_->{id}, $_->{version}} ++} map { { id => $_->[0], version => $_->[1], classification => $_->[2] } } map { [split m{,}] } @partTuples; print Dumper(\@uniquePTs); [download] The output is `$VAR1 = [ { 'version' => '1.1', 'classification' => 'apple', 'id' => 'abc' }, { 'version' => '3.6', 'classification' => 'orange', 'id' => 'def' }, { 'version' => '1.5', 'classification' => 'pear', 'id' => 'abc' }, { 'version' => '1.2', 'classification' => 'peach', 'id' => 'ghi' }, { 'version' => '1.1', 'classification' => 'plum', 'id' => 'xyz' } ];` [download] Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by exussum0 (Vicar) on Oct 31, 2006 at 14:43 UTC
Re^6: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by johngg (Canon) on Oct 31, 2006 at 14:53 UTC
Re^5: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by rashley (Scribe) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:00 UTC
Re^6: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by johngg (Canon) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:43 UTC
Re^6: Most elegant way to dispose of duplicates using map by rashley (Scribe) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:38 UTC