Remove duplicates from the list

The quickest way to remove duplicated entries.

PicoToolkit allows you to remove duplicated lines from the list.

Just copy and paste your list and select Remove -> Duplicates. The resulting list will contain only the unique items.

The tool lets you decide how to determine unique lines:

• case-sensitive or case-insensitive comparison,
• trim whitespaces or not
• remove common prefixes or suffixes

Functionality:

The possible use cases of this tool are numerous. To give you just an idea, we will list a few:

Calculate the unique number of items

By removing the duplicated items, you will see exactly how many unique things are on the list. It will help you further analyze the data in a more organized way.

Calculate the number of duplicates

The total number of duplicates may be a significant factor. It allows you to estimate how difficult could be a particular task. 

If your initial list of tasks shrinks significantly after the removal of the duplicates, the entire job is not as complex as it initially appears.

Real life applications:

If you work with large amounts of data, a tool to remove duplicates from a list can be incredibly useful. Here are some use cases for our tool:

1. When you are compiling a mailing list and want to eliminate duplicate addresses.
2. When you are cleaning up data for a research project and need to remove duplicates from a dataset.
3. When you are merging multiple spreadsheets or databases and want to ensure that there are no duplicate entries.
4. When you are reviewing survey results and need to eliminate responses from people who have submitted multiple surveys.
5. When you are creating a task list and want to ensure that you don't have duplicate tasks listed multiple times.
6. When you are analyzing website traffic and want to eliminate duplicate visitor logs.
7. When you are working with a large list of product SKUs and want to remove duplicates to avoid confusion or errors.
8. When you are organizing your music library and want to remove duplicate songs to save space.
9. When you are comparing two lists and want to identify and remove duplicates.
10. When you are managing a customer database and want to ensure that each customer is only listed once.
11. When you are working with a team to organize project tasks and want to remove duplicate entries.
12. When you are analyzing financial transactions and want to eliminate duplicate entries to ensure accuracy.
13. When you are organizing a book or movie collection and want to remove duplicate titles.
14. When you are reviewing a list of job candidates and want to remove duplicate resumes.
15. When you are managing a list of software bugs and want to remove duplicates to avoid confusion.
16. When you are analyzing website content and want to remove duplicate pages to avoid redundancy.

Other useful tricks.

PicoToolkit lets you filter out not only duplicates but all the lines containing certain phrases or matching a specific pattern.