NAME

Data::Deduper - remove duplicated item from array

SYNOPSIS

use Data::Deduper;
my @data = (1, 2, 3);
my $dd = Data::Deduper->new(
    expr => sub { my ($a, $b) = @_; $a eq $b },
    size => 3,
    data => \@data,
);
# show only 4. because 4 is newer.
for ($dd->dedup(3, 4)) {
    print $_;
}
# show 2 3 4 in whole items. max size of items is 3.
for ($dd->data) {
    print $_;
}

DESCRIPTION

Data::Deduper removes duplicated items in array. This is useful for fetching RSS/Atom feed continual.

INTERFACE

Data::Deduper->new( expr => $expr, size => $size, data => $data )

Creates a deduper instance. $expr is specified as expr of grep. $size mean max size of array. $data is initial array.

$deduper->init( \\@data )

Reset items. return whole items.

$deduper->deup( \\@data )

Dedup items. each item in @data will be checked whether is duplicate item. And if the item is not duplicated, it add to the items. Return items added only. Note that return ignore duplicated items.

$deduper->data()

Return whole items.

AUTHOR

Yasuhiro Matsumoto mattn.jp@gmail.com

SEE ALSO

XML::Feed::Deduper

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.