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Sort Feature: option for "delete duplicate lines"

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:56 am
by joel.i
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?

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:34 am
by s_reynisson
I'm all for this, I think it's far more useful to delete on key rather than the entire line.

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:54 pm
by woho
this would be great !!

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:33 am
by smjg
How would it decide which one to keep?

Stewart.