in reply to Re^2: Collapsing a string to unique characters
in thread Collapsing a string to unique characters

If speed is your need, then compare this: 

sub buk_s {
    my @c;
    $c[ $_ ] = $_ for unpack 'C*', $_[ 0 ];
    pack 'C*', grep defined, @c;
}

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