There should be a "unique" option on sort . . .

[Peter Haworth]

That seems way outside the scope of a sort operation.  For a start, you say
"take the first that matches the sort key" - what if I want the last, or
some other intermediate entry determined by other data criteria?  To
implement this, your'd have to come up with something akin to the SQL GROUP
BY and HAVING keywords in addition to sorting.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Do you mean as in "remove duplicates while you sort"?
> >
>
> yes, or to only take the first that matches the sort key if sorting by
> other than the full record.
>
>
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