Filtering for uniqueness in a list

[Mark Wieder]

Harvey-

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 4:31:32 PM, you wrote:

> Does anyone have a good, fast method for ensuring uniqueness in a multi
> word list?

>From your description, it sounds like a plain old array would do the
job for you:

-- pass your list (with duplicates) in pList:
function RemoveDupesFrom pList
  local tNoDupesA
  repeat for each line tData in pList
    put true into tNoDupesA[tData]
  end repeat
  return the keys of tNoDupesA
end RemoveDupesFrom

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-Mark Wieder
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