use strict; my %numb; my @numb = (0..9); for (0..9999) { my $numb; $numb .= $numb[rand @numb] for 0..5; $numb{$numb}++; } my @unique; for (keys %numb) { push @unique,$_ if $numb{$_} == 1; } print scalar @unique, " unique values\n";