Re: remove duplicate lines

Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 17.15 schrieb Eric Walker:
> Can't you run uniq from the command prompt to get rid of the duplicate
> lines?
>
> perlnewbie..

[...]

Yes I can,

$ cat marc21textfile | uniq > outputfile

but the OP explicitly wanted a perl script and states

> For now, I just want to remove adjacent duplicate fields.

from which I concluded that he wants to elaborate the script further,

and as a perlnewbie on a perl list I try to answer perl questions.

thanks,
joe
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