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This might get you started.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my %record; $record{$_}++ while (<DATA> ); print sort keys %record; __DATA__ NCLEGEND-11-20 NCLEGEND-11-20 NCLEGEND-1-10 NCLEGEND-1-10 NCLEGEND-1-10 NCLEGEND-1-20 NCLEGEND-1-20