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Re: st: How to list just the first case meeting a selection criterion?


From   Michelle Garrison <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to list just the first case meeting a selection criterion?
Date   Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:15:23 -0700

You could do:

* sort county precinct
* by county precinct: list name address1 address2 county precinct city state if _n == 1

There may well be a more streamlined method, though.

paul gronke wrote:

I am dealing with an extremely large (2 gig) dataset and wish to list
just the first case that meets a set of criteria. There are about 200
separate sets of criteria (county and precinct values).

Thus, I'd like a command that does something like:

list name address1 address2 county precinct city state
if [first one of] county=VALUE & precinct=VALUE
repeated about 200 times.

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