Help with Arrays

[Peter Haworth]

Or on SQL

SELECT name,count(name) FROM names GROUP BY name ORDER BY name

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Oct 14, 2013 9:25 PM, "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at ...> writes:
>
> > How would I do this using an array?
>
> Well, Phil beat me to it, but I was going to suggest much the same thing.
> That repeat loop is what does the trick.
>
> Of course, the real-world answer probably depends on where the list of
> names
> is coming from... if it's in a mongodb database, just issue an aggregate
> command and get your results much faster with a one-liner than anything you
> could think of doing in a script.
>
> --
>  Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
>
>
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