At 13:06 -0500 17/5/12, Craig Ede wrote: >One can pretty easily write a little script (perl, python, etc.) that ticks >through a text dump of this list and flags you for dupes. If you haven't >tried to do this sort of thing, it is worth the effort and will spur you on >to inventing more such tools. That beats the heck out of visually scanning >for dupes.
You can also do it in Excel with a little ingenuity. Agreed that a spreadsheet application is not one's most intuitive thought for text processing, but it was the only tool I had to hand recently when trying to do something similar (maintain a large list of glossary definitions and check for duplicates). Use and IF()function on a sorted list of text strings to check for dupes, and apply conditional formatting to highlight them if you want to get cute ;-) Oh drat, I see Bernard's already suggested this... -- Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
