How to remove multiple occurrences from a list? [AS]

Article View: adobe.scripting.indesign

Article #19701

Back to adobe.scripting.indesign Previous Next

#19701

From: Shane Stanley
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:41

24 lines
1574 bytes

in article 1de6be8f.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI, Richard Ronnback wrote:

> Sometimes when I am using lists I would like to remove items that occurs more
> than once. For example, the example below will return more than one text flow
> if I the layer contains linked text frames
> 
> set myLayerStories to parent story of text frames of layer 1 of active
> document 
> 
> How do you "wash" a list so that identical items only appear once?

With some tedium, looping through and doing comparisons. But why not let ID
do the work for you:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
 tell layer 1 of active document
  set myLayerStories to parent story of text frames whose text frame index =
1
 end tell
end tel l


-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

Technical Details

Message-ID: <BA081F5B.452BA%sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!WebX

References: <1de6be8f.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f939a,5af732cb4a184874
X-Google-Attributes: gidf939a,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-25 00:07:41 PST
From: Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!WebX
Newsgroups: adobe.scripting.indesign
Subject: How to remove multiple occurrences from a list? [AS]
Message-ID: <BA081F5B.452BA%sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:41:32 -0800
References: <1de6be8f.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI>
Lines: 30
User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Reply to Parent Message