On 3/12/22 8:54 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
I have a field with about a thousand lines with many duplicate lines, and I want to delete the duplicates. Seems like this should be simple but I am running around in circles. Can anyone help me with this?
Making the list into an array is the easiest way but as mentioned, it will destroy the original order. If the order is important then you can restore it with a custom sort function. Here's my test handlers:
on mouseUp put fld 1 into tData -- we keep this as a reference to the original order put tData into tTrimmedData -- this one will change split tTrimmedData by cr as set -- removes duplicates put keys(tTrimmedData) into tTrimmedData -- convert to a text list sort tTrimmedData numeric by origOrder(each,tData) put tTrimmedData into fld 1 end mouseUp function origOrder pWord, @pData set wholematches to true -- may not matter, depends on the data return lineoffset(pWord, pData) end origOrder Field 1 contains lines in random order with duplicates. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
