How to ignore lines that match certain string after it is matched for the first time within a same file

Ben328 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have lines as follows in a file

Today is amazing.nice day 
Today is amazing.nice but still I haven't done anything 
Yesterday was just a normal day 
Tomorrow probably will be amazing.new day
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What i want to accomplish : I want to be able to go through lines and match "(amazing.*)". If (amazing.*) is unique then put it in an array and also print that line if not ignore it. Basically, this is the result I am looking for.

Today is amazing.nice day  
Tomorrow probably will be amazing.new day
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and so forth....

So far I have only written this much code. I just don't know where to go from here. Any direction on how to approach this would be very much appreciated.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while ( my $line = <> )
    {
        if ( $line =~ m/(\(amazing.+?\))/)
                        {
                        my $string="$1";
                        @allstrings = ($string);
                        }
   }
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Re: How to ignore lines that match certain string after it is matched for the first time within a same file by Kenosis (Priest) on Sep 19, 2012 at 23:47 UTC
Perhaps the following will work for you: `use strict; use warnings; my ( @array, %seen ); while ( my $line = <DATA> ) { if ( $line =~ /(amazing\.\S+)/ and not $seen{ lc $1 }++ ) { push @array, $line; #print $line; } } print for @array; __DATA__ Today is amazing.nice day Today is amazing.nice but still I haven't done anything Yesterday was just a normal day Tomorrow probably will be amazing.new day` [download] Output: `Today is amazing.nice day Tomorrow probably will be amazing.new day` [download] `$1` captures `amazing\.\S+` and using `lc` on the hash key helps insure case is not significant in uniqueness. Hope this helps!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to ignore lines that match certain string after it is matched for the first time within a same file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 19, 2012 at 23:09 UTC
`my %seen; s/(amazing\S+)/ $seen{$1}++ ? ...new... : $1 /eg;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]