Thanks all, the juxtapose solution worked out. -- bc On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net> wrote:
> On 6/8/2016 3:39 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > There are a few trigger words in that. The "first in the list" suggests > a pipe > > with "juxtapose count" > > Yay, another old new keyword for me to learn! > > Without it, my approach to the same task was the other way around: > Number the primary input records, and use UNIQUE FIRST to take the first > in each group. > > It looks like you mashed that old technique into your JUXTAPOSE COUNT > solution, actually. You don't need UNIQUE to find the first when the > count is there: > > (end \) > \ *: > | o: chop 0 > | j: juxtapose count > | pick 9.2 == , 1, > | not chop 10 > | *: > \ o: > | split , > | .. sift bad ones out > | j: > > ¬R >
