http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=239674

removes duplicate lines like UNIX uniq without having to sort the lines first, and preserves the line positions keeping the first match in the list.

#!/usr/bin/perl while (<>) { next if (defined $list{$_}); $list{lc($_)} = [ $i++, $_ ]; } print map { $_->[1] } sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] } values %list;