in reply to Save hash value?

If you indexed your players by name when you created the array, you wouldn't have to perform this expensive duplicate checking.

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Re^2: Save hash value?
by toxicious (Initiate) on Jun 06, 2011 at 00:03 UTC
    ...say whut? Would you mind explaining more about that? What I need to do, is merge all dupes(the data of the entries), not just remove them. Btw, Anonymous Monk, now I get what you mean and it worked ;) thx!
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      I assume you create @players somehow. If you have a loop in which you do so (or if you can arrange your code to create some sort of loop), you could make a hash instead of an array and write:

      my %players;

while (my $player = make_next_player())
{
    if (exists $players{ $player->{name} }
    {
        # merge new player data with existing player
    }
    else
    {
        $players{ $player->{name} } = $player;
    }
}

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