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

[Peter Haworth]

That might stick, I'll see next time I use combine/splt in a few weeks!

I keep thinking some form of the convert command might be clearer (or some
other clever verb rather than convert, like transform).  Maybe "transform
tVar to array" or "transform tArray to text".  Not sure what happens with
split/combine if the variable is not in the correct format but whatever it
is, the same could happen with the convert idea.  Shouldn't think that
would ever happen though :-)

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


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > Thanks Richard and sorry for mixing up split and combine, I always find
> > those terms not particularly reflective of what they do.
>
> I think of it this way. An array is like those collecting boxes with
> horizontal and vertical dividers that separate the interior of the box into
> compartments. "Combine" is like lifting out the dividers so the contents
> are no longer each in their own separate compartment, they're combined into
> one space. "Split" is like inserting the dividers so the contents are split
> into their own compartments.
>
> I dunno, it works for me.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
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> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
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