From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T10:31:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Array uniq

Use uniq! Which modifies the receiver in place.

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On 12/02/2009, at 7:51 AM, Stuart Little <stuart_clarke1986@hotmail.co.uk 
 > wrote:

> I am having some troubles with the uniq method for arrays. This is a
> typical example of my data set, which I want to remove the duplicates
> from.
>
> TueAug052008
> TueAug052008
> TueAug052008
> TueAug052008
>
> Its clear to see the set of data above has 4 identical values and  
> should
> therefore only have remaining after applying array.uniq to this array.
> It has become obvious this doesn't work and uniq doesn't remove any
> duplicates it just pushes the data out as it finds it full of
> dupelictes. Is this a problem with the data set? This is my code:
>
> value= timeDone.to_s
> dateCheck.push value.gsub(/\s/, '')[0..7] + value[26..30]
>      date = dateCheck.uniq
>      @alerts.push(date)
>
> Many thanks
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