unique v[sort v]      -- heterogenous list

chars Is split str
unique chars[sort chars]


> ** Original Subject: [REBOL] Re: Trimming values from a series?
> ** Original Sender: Carl Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:56:16 -0500

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> On 25-Jul-02, Ed Dana wrote:
> 
> > Sorting this string, for example, produces the following results:
> >>> UNIQUE "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
> > their country"
> > == "Now isthemfralgdcuy"
> 
> > Which suggests that either UNIQUE uses some other algorithm, or it
> > sorts it and then puts it back to its original form. The latter,
> > would be very inefficient, of course, so I vote for the former.
> 
> > Maybe the algorithm is something similar to what's used for some 
> > compression schemes?
> 
> Getting the unique values from a string would be simple.  Just have an
> array of 256 flags and tick them as found based on the char values as
> you parse once through the string.  Blocks of mixed datatypes
> wouldn't be quite so easy though...
> 
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