in reply to Re: Find duplicate elements from an array
in thread Find duplicate elements from an array

Yep, HoA is what you need, keyed by name, simply unshift (if you want the second page number before the first - you specify this, but the example doesn't back it up) the page number onto the beginning of the array:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %HoA = (); while (<DATA>) { if (/(.+)\s+(\d+)\s*$/) { unshift(@{$HoA{$1}}, $2); } } print Dumper(\%HoA); __DATA__ Barmparas, Galinos, 1120 Barmparas, Galinos, 1410 Beal, Alan, 866 Beall, Dawson, 1062

Output:

$VAR1 = { 'Beal, Alan,' => [ '866' ], 'Beall, Dawson,' => [ '1062' ], 'Barmparas, Galinos,' => [ '1410', '1120' ] };

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Re^3: Find duplicate elements from an array
by tej (Scribe) on Nov 22, 2010 at 10:49 UTC
    Thank you so much.. mjscott2702