Re: Re: Sorting and Merge

"Dongling Ding" <dling61@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20031118183537.2800.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for this new approach. We tried it and it is
> easier than we thought.
>
> Dongling

Glad to help.

The lesson learned:
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If you described your problem at the very start as you did in your last
message, you'd have saved two weeks. But instead you were asking for some
details in what you believed must be the solution (merging of the results
and discarding duplicates).

So, these points are important:

  1. It is good to start by describing the problem which is being solved -- 
not only the problem within the solution.

  2. A detailed description and providing a complete example is crucial for
getting help.

  3. If a solution is too complicated it rarely is the best one.


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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