How Can I Remove All Duplicate Lines From a Text File? Blog. Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all duplicate lines from a text file?— SWHey, SW. You know, to be a Scripting Guy means to embark on a never- ending quest to find the ultimate solution to a given problem. Awhile back we answered a similar question, one about removing duplicate names from a text file. The solution we came up with was simple enough, and it worked just fine; we just weren. And now, thanks to your question, we can take another shot at this. As to whether this is a better/faster/easier solution than the one we offered before, well, we. For now, suffice to say that we? Suppose you had a simple database with these entries: Red. Red. Blue. Red. If you use a Select DISTINCT query, you. Our text file is constructed like a database table, with each line in the text file representing a single field in a single record. If we run a Select DISTINCT query against this text file, we. Good thing you pointed that out to us! After retrieving our recordset we then use this code to echo the unique lines back to the screen: Do Until obj. Recordset. EOFWscript. VBScript to Remove First Character from each line and dump into new text file Showing 1-9 of 9 messages. Hello, I rewrote a JS code in VB. Everthing works fine except the red lines. I open an eps-file, the script resaves the file as AI (remove the Echo obj. Recordset. Fields. Item(0). Valueobj. Recordset. Move. Next. Loop. If we wanted to, we could also use the File.
System. Object to open the text file and replace the existing contents with only the unique lines; that would have the effect of removing all duplicate lines from the text file. Hey, who knows: after all, never- ending quests take time! After that we get bored and move on to something else.).
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