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# $EPIC: uniq.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/20 17:37:08 sthalik Exp $

Synopsis:

$uniq(<word list>)

Technical:

  • If the <word list> argument is omitted the empty string is returned.
  • In all circumstances, any extra whitespace between words in the word list is lost in the return value.
  • The implementation of this function is equivalent to:
fe ($*) x {
  if (findw($x $function_return) == -1) {
    push function_return $x
  }
}
  • This function uses a O(N^2) algorithm and can perform very slowly for large inputs.

Practical:

This function returns all of the words in <word list> after all of the duplicates are removed.

Returns:

list of the unique words in <word list>

Examples:

$uniq(one two three two one)       returns "one two three"
$uniq(one    two three  two one)   returns "one two three"
$uniq(blah blah blah)              returns "blah"

History:

This function first appeared in EPIC3.001.

uniq.txt · Last modified: 2006/08/29 16:08 by 127.0.0.1