Re: Unique Items in a text file
Re: Unique Items in a text file
- Subject: Re: Unique Items in a text file
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:22:27 +0200
At 2:18 PM +0200 9/4/02, Steve Thompson wrote:
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> - use "extractcolumn 8 ... as list" (Satimage osax) to make rapidly the 8th
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> column into a list of strings (for fastest execution, run it from Smile)
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> - sort the list (the fastest "sort" handler so far was provided in a recent
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> thread, I suggest you ask if you want more info on this point)
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> - read once the list (backwards), comparing successive items, and use
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> "suppress item" (Satimage osax) to remove duplicates.
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The latest version of SatImage that I can find is 1.8.4 (For OS 9.2.2) and
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it doesn't contain any of the commands you've listed. I also found 2.3 for
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OS X which probably does contain these commands, but this is of no use to me
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- I'm working in 9.2.2!
Sorry for another confusion from me.
- 'extractcolumn' is not in the Satimage osax, it requires Smile actually.
- 'suppress item' does belong to the Satimage osax (I think).
Emmanuel
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