Re: how to avoid duplicates WHILE writing...

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Use the scripting.dictionary object and its "Exists()" method - if it exists then do not write it, if not then add the address to
the dictionary and write it out to the file.

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"Jason Simmons" <js@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ens3iQC3GHA.3516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i have a big text file.
im reading the text file, looking for certain strings (email addresses), and
writing them to another file when i find them.

problem is there are a lot of duplicates. i cant figure out the logic as far
as how do i:

find an email address, write it IF it hasnt already been written.

i can think of some very inefficient ways to do this, but would love to see
a "good" way

thank you




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