Re: Removing Duplicates in an Array

["Eric M. Williams" <eric@oxalyn.com>]

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Tom Russell wrote:

> I am trying to remove duplicates in an array but not sure how to  
> handle once I get down to below 0. TheDocs is an array of strings.
> My code:
>
> dim i as Integer
> TheDocs.Sort
> for i = UBound(TheDocs) downto 0
>   if TheDocs(i) = TheDocs(i-1)  then
>     TheDocs.Remove i
>   end if
> Next
>
> Once i gets to 0 then it will throw an out of bounds exception and  
> this is where I am not sure how to handle this.
It would be faster (probably) to push them all into a dictionary,  
which will automatically remove duplicate Keys.
Eric M. Williams
Oxalyn Software

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