From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T11:12:48+09:00
Subject: Re: removing array duplicates where a subset is unique


On Jul 19, 2009, at 3:43 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> Chuck Remes wrote:
>
>> (And Joel, I have presorted the array prior
>> to removing the dupes so I have already taken care of the ordering
>> issue.)
>
> That's well and good, but in the process of using a hash to remove the
> duplicates, the result will be out of order.  See example below.

True, but in my case the order only matters for *picking* the first of  
the duplicates. I understand hashes in 1.8 don't maintain order, but  
that isn't relevant since I don't care about output order.

I suppose I could have written a longer explanation of what I needed,  
but I favored brevity over those other details.

cr