Just a thought, but another way to approach this would be to use AppleScript
to generate the message to start with, using the selected contacts/groups.
You could then check for duplicates *before* adding them as recipients to
the message.
Of course, that doesn't preclude a script for removing duplicates after the
fact, either.
George
On 1/27/01 22:49, Allen Watson wrote:
> On or near 1/27/2001 7:44 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> observed:
>
>> I can't do this today, but I will look at it tomorrow. There's a lot of text
>> parsing to be done.
>
> What? We have to wait an entire day?? How awful! ;-)
>
> Just a thought, Paul; one of the canned "sort" routines in some osax has
> automatic removal of duplicates; I think that might prove useful here. But,
> given that the lists will be fairly short most of the time (very likely less
> than 50), an internal handler might be faster. I'm thinking of something
> along the lines:
>
> set aList to {1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 33, 2}
> set newList to {}
> repeat with i from 1 to (count aList)
> set anItem to item 1 of aList
> set aList to rest of aList
> if {anItem} is not in aList then set end of newList to anItem
> end repeat
> newList
> -- {1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 9, 33, 2}--
> Peace,
> Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
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