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in reply to Re: Data managing problem
in thread Data managing problem

And just for the fun of it:

use strict ; use warnings ; my @clean_data ; my %track_hash ; while( <DATA> ) { s/\s+$// ; my $to_track ; ( $to_track = ( split( /\s+/ ) )[1] ) ? push( @clean_data, $_ ) : +next ; delete( $clean_data[ $track_hash{ $to_track } ] ) if( defined( $tr +ack_hash{ $to_track } ) ) ; $track_hash{ $to_track } = $#clean_data ; } @clean_data = map( { ( $_ ) ? $_ : () } @clean_data ) ; foreach ( @clean_data ) { print "$_\n"; } __DATA__ 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378