Re: Nonrepeating characters in an RE

[atcroft]

Interesting problem. Out of curiousity, I played around with the idea and got the following (ugly!) one-liner to work (reformatted for readability):

$ perl -le '
my @arry = qw/ a b cd gefge hhi jjkk l m nn o /;
print q{Originals: }, join q{ }, @arry;
my @n_arry = 
    grep { if ( $_ !~ m/(.).*?\g-1/ ) { $_; } } @arry;
print q{Uniques:   }, join q{ }, @n_arry;
'
Originals: a b cd gefeg hhi jjk l m nn o
Uniques:   a b cd l m o
$

It can probably be cleaned up or made shorter (as I was just trying to get something working).

I originally approached the idea of doing a split-sort-join on the original string to get an ordered string, testing that for duplicate characters, but after getting it working I realized the grep() was the meat of the code, and the rest could be eliminated.

For anyone curious, here was my original code:

$ perl -le '
my @arry = qw/ a b cd gefge hhi jjkk l m nn o /;
print q{Originals: }, join q{ }, @arry;
my @n_arry = 
    map  { $_->{ori} }
    grep { if ( $_->{ordered} !~ m/(.).*?\g-1/gx ) { $_; } }
    map  { my $str = my $o_str = $_;
           my @p = sort { $a cmp $b } split //, $o_str;
           $str = join q{ }, @p;
           { ori => $o_str, ordered => $str, };
         } @arry;
print q{Uniques:   }, join q{ }, @n_arry;
'
Originals: a b cd gefeg hhi jjk l m nn o
Uniques:   a b cd l m o
$

Hope that helps.

Here's a shorter value for a single string:

$ perl -le '
my $str = shift; 
print q{Original: }, $str; 
print q{Unique:   }, 
        grep { if ( $_ !~ m/(.).*?\g-1/ ) { $_; }; } ( $str, );
' foobar
Original: foobar
Unique:   
$ perl -le '
my $str = shift;
print q{Original: }, $str;
print q{Unique:   },
        grep { if ( $_ !~ m/(.).*?\g-1/ ) { $_; }; } ( $str, );
' bar
Original: bar
Unique:   bar

Update: (2022-08-15) - Removed unnecessary '/g' and '/x' from the regex in the grep. Removed an errant line of text that was left while editing the response. Removed READMORE tags around first code snippet. Fixed punctuation error in response text. Added shorter code examples at end.