Hello all, I’m wondering if there is a function in processing to find unique/distinct values in arrays/lists. I am trying to make a dropdown menu from an imported data set. For example, if I have an array of 5 elements that contains “bear”, “deer”, “moose”, “moose”, “deer”, I want the function to r…

Processing.GitHub.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/data/StringList.html#getUnique-- String[] animals = { "bear", "deer", "moose", "moose", "deer" }; println(animals); animals = new StringList(animals).getUnique(); println(animals); exit();

Finding unique/distinct values in a list

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Chrisir December 6, 2019, 5:55pm 2

It’s not really hard when you use hashmap

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Finding unique/distinct values in a list

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