in reply to Collapsing a string to unique characters

If the order of the characters is of no concern, you can do it in one regex and the lookup hash:

perl -wple "%seen=();s/(.)/$seen{$1}++?'':$1/ge"

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Re^2: Collapsing a string to unique characters
by dwhite20899 (Friar) on Jan 09, 2009 at 14:27 UTC
    Holy moley. I need the order, but I'll save this for another use. Thanks!