another question about finding duplicates
Peter Alcibiades
palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 28 02:19:04 EST 2008
Thanks everyone, what's amazing is how you can solve the problem by such
completely different approaches.
My own approach was best thought of as an attempt at the new literary genre
of "programming jokes" and has the same relation to the others as PDQ Bach
has to music. Here is it is:
set the itemDelimiter to tab
put field tData into tmp
repeat for each line theLine in field tData
put item 1 of theLine into tagg
get tmp
filter it with tagg&tab&"*"
if the number of lines in it >1 then put it & CR after field tError
end repeat
When run against a two hundred line file with one duplicate pair, the screen
flickered for several seconds, after which it notified us of all four of
them. The IDE somehow did not seem quite his usual cheerful self after
having got through this exercise.. ...
Peter
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