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I can across a great snippet of code, posted on DZone, that provides a two line solution to uniq an array while maintaining order:

# Input: @list
# Output: @uniqed
 
my %seen;
my @uniqed = grep !$seen{$_}++, @list;

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I just realized the other day that I’ve never posted about the new system I put together. Towards the latter part of summer, lightning stuck near our home blowing out our garage door opener, A/C, TV, and my desktop PC’s motherboard. The strike was strong enough to leave a scorch mark on my [...]

I’m always up for a great deal, especially when it comes to computer upgrades that I need. So, on Black Friday I decided to go to the local Staples for their deal on an external 500gb HDD. While waiting in the slowly growing line, a reporter from the Herald Banner came by, with [...]

Earlier this year I posted Better Not Bash Your Advertiser about an incident where a Editor-In-Chief of PC World had resigned because the CEO of PC World wouldn’t allow him to publish his article, “Ten Things I Hate About Apple”. In that instance I went into some of my personal feelings about that, and [...]

I’ve recently noticed a sharp increase in new user registrations, all of which do not appear to be users genuinely interested being a “registered user”. Most of these accounts with involve random characters the names, end with the Russia country code (.ru), or contain other common spam words. While they do all seam [...]