Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

Just in case someone really needs a quick script to remove duplicate items, here it is in VB.net. This component has a single input of X that is a List( Of On3dPoint ) and output A. You should be able to change the type and it will still work.



Dim uniquePoints As New List( Of On3dPoint )

Dim found As Boolean = False

Dim i As Double = 0

Dim j As Double = 0

For i = 0 To x.Count - 1 Step 1

Dim cPoint As On3dPoint = x.Item(i)

found = False

If uniquePoints.Contains(cPoint) Then

found = True

End If

If found = False Then

uniquePoints.Add(cPoint)

End If

Next



A = uniquePoints

Hope it helps someone!

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 1, 2010 at 11:00pm

if it is points / lines, check out kangaroo...

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Permalink Reply by Matt Ward on May 2, 2010 at 2:11am

funny, I have that installed and I never saw that bit of it... oh well

that was the start to a script I wrote to eliminate points that are inside a circle with 5 other points, essentially finding the points inside circles containing less than 6 points

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Permalink Reply by Yurii on September 29, 2010 at 4:01am

Thank you! That it is necessary.

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Permalink Reply by qwesxqe on October 1, 2010 at 12:37am

thanks, ti's useful

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Permalink Reply by Ben Sitler on October 17, 2010 at 12:26am

Oh I would be careful using list.contains on geometrical inputs. Try moving one of the points in your list 0.00000000001 units (basically a rounding error) and watch as it is included in the new list of unique points.

Ben