Re: sorting an array of hashes and removing duplicates

Another way to do it might be to just run the output of the sort through another filter like so:

my %seen;
my @sortthetutors = 
       grep { !$seen{$_->{tutorsID}}++ }  
          sort { $a->{tmiles} <=> $b->{tmiles} } @tutorsdata;
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Re^2: sorting an array of hashes and removing duplicates by jmfees (Initiate) on Apr 02, 2010 at 08:51 UTC
This one worked beautifully, I tested it on 80,000 records, it took just a couple seconds... Thanks!!!	[reply]