Sort Feature: option for "delete duplicate lines"

joel.i · Post by **joel.i** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:56 am

Using v4.7.3 I experienced that when using the sort feature with the option "delete duplicate lines" a line will be obviously considered "duplicated" when the whole line matches (i.e. two lines are completely identical).

To my opion an additional option would be helpful, where I could restrict the criteria for the duplicate state to the specified key.

An example could be a text file containing "surname, firstname, e-mail" where I want to delete lines with the e-mail address doubled (but the name may spelled different).

Any chance to implement it or any comment?

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:34 am

I'm all for this, I think it's far more useful to delete on key rather than the entire line.

woho · Post by **woho** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:54 pm

this would be great !!

smjg · Post by **smjg** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:33 am

How would it decide which one to keep?

Stewart.