common/tools/sortUnique.pl
author Brendan Donegan brendand@symbian.org
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#!perl -w
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use strict;
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# Sorts the input, removes duplicates, and outputs it
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# Read it
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my @content = <>;
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# Sort it, and grep to remove duplicates
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my $previous = "\n\n";
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@content = grep {$_ ne $previous && ($previous = $_, 1) } sort @content;
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# Write it
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print @content;