utility to check that all heading names are unique?

[Craig Ede]

Thank you. I miss UNIX.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
[mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:53 PM
To: Craig Ede; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: utility to check that all heading names are unique?

Hmmm ... no need to make it too complicated, I suspect. I suspect a variant
of the following command line (if you are on a Unix system anyway) will
probably work:

sort < inputfile.txt | uniq -c | grep -v "   1 "

to find any lines that are present _more_ than once.

(There are three spaces before, and one space character after, the digit 1
above ... to ignore single occurrences.)

In my PC, I wrote my own uniq and grep years ago to emulate the Unix
commands in a DOS window, and "sort" has always been available in a DOS
command prompt ... even in today's Windows 7 environment .

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:06 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: utility to check that all heading names are unique?

One can pretty easily write a little script (perl, python, etc.) that ticks
through a text dump of this list and flags you for dupes. If you haven't
tried to do this sort of thing, it is worth the effort and will spur you on
to inventing more such tools. That beats the heck out of visually scanning
for dupes.

Craig