On Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002, at 10:57 US/Pacific, Randell B Adkins wrote:
> <cfset newList = ''>
> <cfoutput>
> <CFLOOP INDEX=i LIST="#mList#">
> <CFIF LISTCONTAINS(newList,TRIM(i)) EQ FALSE>
> <CFSET newList = ListAppend(newList,i)>
> </CFIF>
> </CFLOOP>
> </cfoutput>
Beware of how many comparisons (and list operations in general!) this
does! Assume n unique items and it works like this:
n compares
1 1 (against an empty list)
2 2 (1 against an empty list, 1 against a list with 1 elem)
3 4
4 7
5 11
6 16
7 22
8 29
9 37
10 46
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