arrays

I have a collection of objects that may have duplicates in it. What I
want to do is to iterate through the list and only add the non
duplicates to an array, so as I am adding to the array, I need some way
of checking against the current contents of the array. Is this
possible, or is there a better way to do this?



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you could use a dictionary and the 'exists' method

The following examples illustrate the use of the Exists method.

[JScript]
function keyExists(k)
{
var fso, s = "";
d = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");
d.Add("a", "Athens");
d.Add("b", "Belgrade");
d.Add("c", "Cairo");
if (d.Exists(k))
s += "Specified key exists.";
else
s += "Specified key doesn't exist.";
return(s);
}[VBScript]
Function KeyExistsDemo
Dim d, msg ' Create some variables.
Set d = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
d.Add "a", "Athens" ' Add some keys and items.
d.Add "b", "Belgrade"
d.Add "c", "Cairo"
If d.Exists("c") Then
msg = "Specified key exists."
Else
msg = "Specified key doesn't exist."
End If
KeyExistsDemo = msg
End Function

Mike P wrote:
> I have a collection of objects that may have duplicates in it. What I
> want to do is to iterate through the list and only add the non
> duplicates to an array, so as I am adding to the array, I need some
> way of checking against the current contents of the array. Is this
> possible, or is there a better way to do this?
>
>
>
There's no shortcut. You need to do a nested loop.


start loop through collection
within the collection loop, loop through the array checking to see if object
already exists.
if not, add the object to the array and move to the next object

Do you need more detail than that? if so, we sill need more details.

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