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Pushing unique data into arrays
- Thread starter jackz15
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you can loop through the array using grep:
this will work OK as long as the arrays are not really big, meaning many thousands of elements in the array. For a few thousand elements or less it should be good enough if you don't want to use a hash instead.
Note my sample code is doing string checking (case insensitive) instead of pattern matching, this may not work for your purposes. If not you can switch to a regexp istead of using a string comparison operator.
Code:
push @array,$url if !grep(lc($_) eq lc($url),@array);this will work OK as long as the arrays are not really big, meaning many thousands of elements in the array. For a few thousand elements or less it should be good enough if you don't want to use a hash instead.
Note my sample code is doing string checking (case insensitive) instead of pattern matching, this may not work for your purposes. If not you can switch to a regexp istead of using a string comparison operator.
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