Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:08:44 PM, you wrote: put myVar into otherVar split otherVar by cr and TAB put the keys of otherVar into otherVar Dang! I never remember about split. Good one. Congrats on the move to broadband, BTW. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
Mark Wieder wrote: Alex- Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:08:44 PM, you wrote: put myVar into otherVar split otherVar by cr and TAB put the keys of otherVar into otherVar Dang! I never remember about split. Good one. Yeah - I had to test it out to make sure it worked OK when

RE: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-20 Thread Harvey Toyama
-- better yet, I'll regard warning as opportunity. Thanks, -- Harvey -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:37 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list Mark

Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Harvey- Thursday, October 20, 2005, 7:49:27 AM, you wrote: work, but I'll settle on the split. It took me a while to figure out why it works. I think the split technique should be faster as well, although I haven't benchmarked it. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-19 Thread Harvey Toyama
Hi, I have a task that requires aggregating multiple lists and dropping non-unique entries. My lists come from MySQL tables. My alternatives seem to be: 1. Create a temporary table in MySQL and use the REPLACE function with each table (list) pro: the REPLACE function

Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Harvey Toyama wrote: Hi, I have a task that requires aggregating multiple lists and dropping non-unique entries. My lists come from MySQL tables. 2. Read the lists into my Revolution client and perform the uniquification there pro: I don't compromise the MySQL security

Re: Filtering for uniqueness in a list

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Harvey- Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 4:31:32 PM, you wrote: Does anyone have a good, fast method for ensuring uniqueness in a multi word list? From your description, it sounds like a plain old array would do the job for you: -- pass your list (with duplicates) in pList: function