Re: Elementary but surprisingly difficult.

On Sun, 25 May 2008 01:54:39 -0400, John Passaniti wrote:

Albert van der Horst wrote:
Sorting the items is pretty easy, qsort can handle that.
Now eliminating the duplicates, we need only compare one
item to the next.

What if the original ordering must be preserved? By sorting, you've
destroyed that ordering.

Errr. "abcbdecadec" Eliminate duplicates but preserve the original order?
Impossible.
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