Re: remove duplicate lines

On Friday 27 May 2005 01:22 pm, John Doe wrote:
> 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

Ok,
the perlnewbie tag is for me, not you. Seems like you got upset. sorry for the
misunderstanding..

perlnewbie....


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