John W. Krahn wrote:
Mihir Kamdar wrote:
I want to remove duplicate records. But the record might not be entirely
duplicate. I only have to check if the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th field of a
record is same as the earlier records. If it is same, then remove the
previous or the last entry. I have written something like below to achieve
this.

You don't need two loops for that, just one:

Two loops are required since the specification is to print the last entry 
(that's a duplicate) in the file, not the first.

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