Removing duplicate

[Marteinn Sverrisson]

1) Can I remove duplicated lines with Textpad?
2) Can I remove lines that have the first x characters the same as another line?

[Andreas]

1) can be done when sorting the file
2) ? (don't know of a way to do it)

[Roy Beatty]

You cannot do it through Sort.

How would you decide which of the two lines to keep?

[Marteinn Sverrisson]

>How would you decide which of the two lines to keep?

It would be the first instance

[Roy Beatty]

It sounds like a database might serve your purpose better than a flat text file.

[Geoff Houck]

If you'd like, I can send you a simple command-line text-sorting utility which allows
you to sort and remove duplicates based on the sort keys or whole record (arbitrarily picking one or more of them to delete).

Or, you can find the utility at: http://home.attbi.com/~hksys (go to the Download
page, and download FSORT).

Or, drop a line at the above address or hksys@attbi.com.

Yours,

Geoff Houck