Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-21 Thread @lbutlr
On May 20, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Frank Eves wrote: > Thank you BARE BONES! It doesn’t suck. ;) -- Worlds of belief, she [Susan] thought. Just like oysters. A little piece of shit gets in and then a pearl grows around it. --Hogfather -- This is the BBEdit Talk public

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Frank Eves
On May 20, 2016, at 14:55, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > That's correct; Process Duplicate Lines does _not_ require that the lines you > apply it to be sorted in any particular order. Wow, 'Process Duplicate Lines…' is simple, but very powerful. Thank you BARE BONES! To

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Patrick Woolsey
On 5/20/16 at 5:01 PM, list.bbe...@munkynet.org (Sam Hathaway) wrote: Works on non-sorted files for me. Must keep track of all seen lines. (BBEdit 11.) That's correct; Process Duplicate Lines does _not_ require that the lines you apply it to be sorted in any particular order. Regards,

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Sam Hathaway
Works on non-sorted files for me. Must keep track of all seen lines. (BBEdit 11.) -sam On 20 May 2016, at 4:58 PM EDT, Neil Faiman wrote: On May 20, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Frank Eves wrote: I know some/many of the quotations appear more than once. I'd like to eliminate

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Neil Faiman
> On May 20, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Frank Eves wrote: > > I know some/many of the quotations appear more than once. I'd like to > eliminate the duplicates. Assuming those duplicate lines are exactly the > same, is there any possibility that 'Process Duplicate Lines…' can

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Sam Hathaway
On 20 May 2016, at 4:39 PM EDT, Frank Eves wrote: is there any possibility that 'Process Duplicate Lines…' can save me a lot of time? Yes, this is what “Process Duplicate Lines…” is designed to do. I assume that you want to know how to set all the knobs and switches. Try this: Select:

Eliminate duplicate quotations

2016-05-20 Thread Frank Eves
I have a quotations file (< 6000 lines 364 KB) that looks like this: --- "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose. It's queerer than we can suppose." -- Albert Einstein "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if everything is a miracle, and the other is as if nothing