Remove duplicate words from a string

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May 8th, 2008, 07:29 AM

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Remove duplicate words from a string

Hi

Say i have the following in a field

<Anyword, Anyword, Otherword, Otherword>

How can i remove/hide the duplicate words when retreiving the data in query?

With the result being >

<Anyword, Otherword>

Anyhelp is greatly appreciated,. I can't remove the duplicates at an earlier stage as they are gathered via a column row concatination,...

Thanks AOG

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May 8th, 2008, 09:15 AM

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have a look here. i realize this function is written in VBScript (for ASP), but i'm sure it can be converted to VBA quite easily.

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I did this off the top of my head, so it is untested. But check out the answer >>Here <--Click<<

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