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List.HasDuplicateItems

Checks if list has duplicates.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
List 7.5 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "List.HasDuplicateItems"; List { ; CaseInsensitive } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
List The list to process. "Hello" ¶ "Hello" ¶ "World"
CaseInsensitive Available in MBS FileMaker Plugin 14.0 or newer.
Whether to perform comparison case insensitve.
By default we do case sensitive operations, which are faster.
Pass 1 for insensitve or 0 for sensitive.
0 Optional

Result

Returns 1, 0 or error.

Description

Checks if list has duplicates.
Returns 1 if duplicate lines are found or 0 if not.

Examples

Try it:

MBS( "List.HasDuplicateItems"; "Hello¶Test¶World¶Test" )

Example result: 1

Try with case sensitive and case insenstive:

MBS( "List.HasDuplicateItems"; "a¶A"; 0) & MBS( "List.HasDuplicateItems"; "a¶A"; 1)

Example result: 01

See also

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Created 21st October 2017, last changed 10th December 2023


List.GetValue - List.HasValue