deleteDups()

HyperChris at aol.com HyperChris at aol.com
Wed Nov 16 13:03:26 EST 2005


>> then J. Landman Gay wrote ...
>> function deleteDups pList
>>     split pList by cr and numToChar(3)
>>     return keys(pList)
>> end deleteDups

Geoff Canyon wrote ...
>it looks like the split command takes not quite twice 
>as long as repeat for each ...
>
>function deleteDupes pList -- does _not_ retain sort order
>    repeat for each line L in pList
>      put 1 into temp[L]
>    end repeat
>    return the keys of temp
>end deleteDupes


Thanks Geoff. Actually, I am getting split as four times faster
than 'for each' (under v2.6.0 & 2.6.1)



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