Unique values - improved
But actually we don't need to do it in two steps:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @data = qw(Earth Mars Earth Venus Earth Mars);
my @unique;
my %seen;
foreach my $value (@data) {
if (! $seen{$value}++ ) {
push @unique, $value;
}
}
print "@unique\n"; # Earth Mars Venus