i have a data set of stock orders and i want to count the number of unique
stock symbols in the set.
i have turned the data set into an array and based on the message spec, i
can identify the stock symbols. but i don't know how to make sure i'm
only counting unique ones.
i had thought to do an if statement along the lines of
$symbolset = "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
";
if $symbolset !~ /substr($message,17,6)/ #if the array doesn't contain
the new symbol
{
#then add it to the array
push (@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"substr($message,17,6)
}
substr($message,17,6) is the symbol info within each line of the array of
the data set.
the problem is that that doesn't work!
does anyone have any ideas how to do this?
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