Stripping duplicates from a list
Dave Cross
dave at dave.org.uk
Thu Jun 12 16:45:51 BST 2008
Quoting Paul Sharpe <paul at coreware.co.uk>:
> 2008/6/12 Kake L Pugh <kake at earth.li>:
>
>> What I want to do is strip out the duplicates - i.e. those strings
>> which differ only by capitalisation - but keep by preference one of
>> the versions that has a capital letter at the beginning.
>
> http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/ch04_07.htm
>
> might give you some ideas
Or perhaps it would be better to get it from the latest edition of the
Cookbook.
http://safari.oreilly.com/0596003137/perlckbk2-CHP-4-SECT-7
Just sign up for the 14-day free trial in order to see the whole thing.
Dave...
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