Re: Removing Duplicates in an Array

[Arnaud Nicolet <anic297@mac.com>]

Le 31 janv. 09 à 20:49 (soir), Eric M. Williams a écrit:

> 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.
I don't think all collections should be automatically used as  
dictionaries rather than array. If they are just plain data, an array  
is more suited.
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