 "be consistent"  Re: Extracting Unique elements  by wind
(Priest) on Jun 14, 2011 at 23:49 UTC
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Re: Extracting Unique elements Re^2: Extracting Unique elements
by smandape1 (Acolyte) on Jun 16, 2011 at 16:50 UTC      I
tried, but I am unable to use them directly. The thing is the
data 'title' gets extracted twice for more than one users
because of the loop. I want to restrict the loop to extract
elements like title, PMID and list of authors only once. And I
want to do it while I am extracting it. It seems that I can
remove the duplicates later but, it all messes up. Because there
are some users and tags that are duplicates too, but I want
them. Can you help please.        Just use a %seen hash like
demonstrated in the resource I linked you to. It will enable you
to filter out any duplicates as you go just as easily as
removing duplicates after the fact.               Thanks Wind. I
really appreciate your help. Okay, while I was playing around
wit