Unique values using grep
Of course there is an even shorter way to write it:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';
my @data = qw(Earth Mars Earth Venus Earth Mars);
#my %seen;
#my @unique = grep { !$seen{$_}++ } @data;
my @unique = do { my %seen; grep { !$seen{$_}++ } @data };
print "@unique\n"; # Earth Mars Venus
In this version you can even assign the values back to the original array writing:
@data = grep { !$seen{$_}++} @data;