Eliminate doubles in a long list field

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Jun 28 11:04:00 EDT 2003


On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 09:03 AM, yves COPPE wrote:

>> Yves COPPE wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ludovic
>>>
>>> here is a script I use to do the job between two flds
>>> Very fast !!!
>>
>> Thanks ! Very fast it's true (20 seconds  instead of  2 hours !)

Inspired by Yves function I wrote this:

function removeDoubles theLines
   replace LF with "|" & "x" & LF in theLines
   split theLines using LF and "|"
   return keys( theLines )
end removeDoubles

Add sort() if you want.

You can replace the "|" above with numToChar(3) and it works, but null 
causes Revolution to have trouble.

That loses order, though.  Do you want to keep order?

Dar Scott




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