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<tt>Thanks for the info. I already adopted a program from another
person and it works like a charm. As for your question, I had no idea
of if I had duplicate or more as there was some 570 line items. I
whittled it down to 370 line entries. Whew. <br>
<br>
Ken<br>
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Luke Paireepinart wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ken G. <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What
is a method I can use to find duplicated entry within a sorted numeric
file? <br>
I was trying to read a file reading two lines at once but apparently, I
can only read one line at a time. Can the same file be opened and read
two times within a program?<br>
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For example, a file has:<br>
<br>
1<br>
2<br>
2<br>
3<br>
4<br>
4<br>
5<br>
6<br>
6<br>
<br>
The newly revised file should be:<br>
<br>
1<br>
2<br>
3<br>
4<br>
5<br>
6<br>
<br>
Again, thanking the group for their input,<br>
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One-liner:<br>
open("output.txt", "w").write("\n".join(sorted(set([i.strip() for i in
open("input.txt")]))))<br>
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Just for fun :)<br>
<br>
also, in your algorithm, why are you assuming there are at most 1 extra
entries in the case of a duplicate? Why not generalize it for all
duplicates?<br>
-Luke<br>
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