#! perl -slw use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time ]; $|++; sub uniq{ my %x; @x{@_} = (); keys %x } my $start = time; my @uniq = uniq <>; chomp @uniq; @uniq = sort{ length $a <=> length $b } @uniq; my $all = join chr(0), @uniq; my $p = 0; for my $x ( @uniq ) { $p += 1+ length $x; next if 1+ index $all, $x, $p; ## COrrected per LanX below. print $x; } printf STDERR "Took %.3f\n", time() - $start;