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remove dups from ArrayList

Is these an easy way to remove duplicate values in an ArrayList?

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David
Nov 18 '05 #1
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> Is these an easy way to remove duplicate values in an ArrayList?

This method will do the magic for you:
public static ArrayList RemoveDuplicates(ArrayList list) {
ArrayList ret=new ArrayList();
foreach (object obj in list) {
if (!ret.Contains(obj)) ret.Add(obj);
}
return ret;
}

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Nov 18 '05 #2

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