[FX.php List] Getting a set of unique records

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

;-) cat values.txt | sort | uniq in FileMaker is called ValueList :-)

ggt

2008/8/20 Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com>:
> That's it.  VALUE LIST.  Thanks guys. Sorry for the vague question.
>
> J
>
> At 10:32 AM -0400 8/20/08, Someone wrote:
>>
>> try value list on that field
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>
>>> Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Your question wasn't very clear, but if you mean that each record needs
>>> to be unique based on one of the fields, you could loop through the found
>>> set in PHP once you've retrieved it, and only display unique records. You'd
>>> want to sort your query results by that field, and then loop through,
>>> comparing the first record with the subsequent one each time through the
>>> loop.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
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>>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Drawing a blank on this one.
>>>>
>>>> I'm querying a many-to-many match table and need to end up just a list
>>>> of unique records based on one of the fields.
>>>>
>>>> How to do?
>>>>
>>>> J
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