Perl tips, part 1

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Great resources

Modern Perl Book

Free book to download
Modern perl book cover.png

Code snipets

To find unique elements in an array

my @array_items = (1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,5);
%seen = ();
@unique_array = grep { ! $seen{$_} ++ } @array_items;
print @unique_array."\n";
# Should print 12345

Clear terminal

use Term::ANSIScreen qw(cls);
cls();