Removing duplicate lines from a text file

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jgillis16 on 15 Aug 2015

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I have a text file (attached) that has duplicate lines in it. How would I remove those lines?

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Walter Roberson on 15 Aug 2015

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read the lines of the file. use unique(TheLinesCell, 'stable') and write the results out to a new file.

There are several ways to read the lines. See fgetl() for one way.

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jgillis16 on 15 Aug 2015

Thanks!

Zachary Messaglia on 23 Mar 2018

Do you by any chance still have the code for this?

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