in reply to Re^4: Tie::Hash::MultiValue Unique question
in thread Tie::Hash::MultiValue Unique question

Something like this may do what you want:
use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %edges; # created empty while (<DATA>) { my ($node1, $node2) = split; # nothing to do if node1 already has a node2 in its array. next if exists $edges{$node1}{present}{$node2}; # node2 not already there: push it, mark it present. push @{ $edges{$node1}{array} }, $node2; $edges{$node1}{present}{$node2} = 1; } # transform hash to final structure. for my $node (keys %edges) { # for each node1 of hash... # presence flags no longer needed: eliminate them. delete $edges{$node}{present}; # associate each node1 directly with its node2 array ref. $edges{$node} = delete $edges{$node}{array}; } # see what we got. print Dumper \%edges; __DATA__ 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 2 1 5 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 6 2 3 1 2 2 2
Output:
>perl uniq_hash_value_1.pl $VAR1 = { '1' => [ '2', '3', '4', '5', '6' ], '2' => [ '1', '2', '3' ] };