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Old 03-15-2019
Perl/Array Sorting : Can someone please explain below code $h{$_}++
Code:
sub uniq {
    my %h;
    return grep { !$h{$_}++ } @_
}

The above code is to remove duplicates from array.

I am having hard time understanding below things (basically around highlighted code in bold)-

when was the value inserted in hash?
and are we only adding a key in Hash not values?
Code:
$h{$_}++

what "++" means here
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Old 03-18-2019
Basically
Code:
$h{$_}++

returns the value of $h{$_} then increments it. If there is no value at $h{$_} perl will initialise it to zero.

So, for each value that $_ may be, the first evaluation is zero and subsequent evaluations are non-zero. The exclamation point negates the values into True if zero, False if non-zero.

Does that help?

Andrew
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