#!/usr/bin/perl -nl # Use Perl's multi-byte alignment code, via sprintf, while # performing a rudimentary check for duplicate names and # removing duplicate name,email pairs. use Encode; BEGIN { my (%seen, %name) } chomp; my ($name, $email) = split '\0', decode ('UTF-8', $_); $seen{$name}++ and warn "$0: THANKS.in: duplicate name: $name\n"; print encode ('UTF-8', sprintf ('%-36s', $name)), $email unless $seen{"$name\0$email"}++;