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On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 8:56, Jack Butchie wrote: > I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or > whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the > tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. I then tested > with only the first field in the list and it worked perfectly. The script > seems not to like anything different in other columns/fields. > > LAWN > LAWN > LAWN > PORCHES > WARTHOGS Right, as I said (and Gunnar made clearer), this is *not* testing product names for equality. It's testing the entire lines for equality. Which field do you actually want to test? Now that I look at your initial email, I'm guessing that what you actually want to test is "LAWN SEED" against "LAWN SEED1" - which makes things a bit more complicated. Your file doesn't have a consistent field separator (sometimes a space is part of a product name, sometimes not). A solution that works for "LAWN SEED" and "LAWN SEED1" won't be identical to one for "LAWN SEED1" compared to "MULCH". So, what does the file really look like?Thread Previous | Thread Next