You could sort the table then perform a merge which removes duplicates.
Chris Jones wrote:
I don't think that solves my problem. Sure, it guarantees that the IDs are
unique, but not the strings.
My whole goal is to be able to create a unique identifier for each string,
in such a way that I dont have the same string listed twice, with different
identifiers.
In your solution, there is no way to lookup a string to see if it already
exists, since there is no index on the string.
Thanks,
Chris
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