$uniq(<word list>)

• If the <word list> argument is omitted the empty string is returned.
• In all circumstances, any extra whitespace between words in the word list is lost in the return value.
• The implementation of this function is equivalent to:

fe ($*) x {
  if (findw($x $function_return) == -1) {
    push function_return $x
  }
}

• This function uses a O(N^2) algorithm and can perform very slowly for large inputs.

This function returns all of the words in <word list> after all of the duplicates are removed.

list of the unique words in <word list>

$uniq(one two three two one)       returns "one two three"
$uniq(one    two three  two one)   returns "one two three"
$uniq(blah blah blah)              returns "blah"

This function first appeared in EPIC3.001.