Counting unique items in a file

[Dan Friedman]

Skip,

Haven't tested, but pope about this...

function getUniqueNames inData,pColumn
  put "" into uNames
  set the itemDel to tab
  repeat for each line l in inData
    add 1 to uNames[item pColumn of l]
  end repeat
  
  return uNames
end getUniqueNames

You should get back an array keyed by the unique names, and how many instances of each one


-Dan



On 4/27/20, 10:25 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Skip Kimpel via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    Good afternoon LC'ers,

    I am loading a tab delimited file into a variable and I need to pull out
    all unique names from a certain column (let's say column 10) and count how
    many times that name appears in that column.

    I know there has to be an easy way of doing it.  Every time I try to start
    coding this it get waaaayyy too long :)

    Simple approach?

    SKIP
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