This is a super simple browser-based application that finds the unique items in a list. It works with all data types and returns a new list with only the distinct items in it. You can customize the input and output separators of list items, as well as trim items before comparison and skip empty items. Created by list geeks from team Browserling.
This is a super simple browser-based application that finds the unique items in a list. It works with all data types and returns a new list with only the distinct items in it. You can customize the input and output separators of list items, as well as trim items before comparison and skip empty items. Created by list geeks from team Browserling.
With this utility, you can find and extract unique items from a list. If any of the items in the input list appear more than once, then in the output list they will appear exactly once. An extra option "Find Absolutely Unique Items" lets you change this behavior. If you activate this option, then the program will find those items that are absolutely unique in the entire list – meaning items, which have no copies in the list. You may also need the "Case Sensitive Items" option, which allows you to identify capitalized words and lowercase words as two separate words. Sometimes, when working with lists, there is a lot of noise (in form of whitespace characters) around the items. In this case, you can trim all items before they are compared for uniqueness. Trimming involves removing leading and trailing whitespaces so that the potentially invisible whitespaces didn't lead to false results. You can also filter out all the empty items with the length equal to zero. The program works with multitype data lists. They can be lists of numbers, strings, characters, and they can include Unicode glyphs. All data types can be mixed, too. For example, you can have a word list with numbers or an emoji list with digits. To support all these list formats, we developed two list parsing modes. The first mode allows you to separate list items using the entered character. For example, if the input list is semicolon-separated, then you can enter a semicolon in the list item separator field. Similarly, if the list is dash-separated, then you need to enter a dash symbol in the separator option. The second mode allows you to separate the list items using a regular expression. For example, if the input list is comma- and colon-separated, then you can use the regex /[,:]/. You can also immediately reformat the unique output list by setting a new item separator. Listabulous!
With this utility, you can find and extract unique items from a list. If any of the items in the input list appear more than once, then in the output list they will appear exactly once. An extra option "Find Absolutely Unique Items" lets you change this behavior. If you activate this option, then the program will find those items that are absolutely unique in the entire list – meaning items, which have no copies in the list. You may also need the "Case Sensitive Items" option, which allows you to identify capitalized words and lowercase words as two separate words. Sometimes, when working with lists, there is a lot of noise (in form of whitespace characters) around the items. In this case, you can trim all items before they are compared for uniqueness. Trimming involves removing leading and trailing whitespaces so that the potentially invisible whitespaces didn't lead to false results. You can also filter out all the empty items with the length equal to zero. The program works with multitype data lists. They can be lists of numbers, strings, characters, and they can include Unicode glyphs. All data types can be mixed, too. For example, you can have a word list with numbers or an emoji list with digits. To support all these list formats, we developed two list parsing modes. The first mode allows you to separate list items using the entered character. For example, if the input list is semicolon-separated, then you can enter a semicolon in the list item separator field. Similarly, if the list is dash-separated, then you need to enter a dash symbol in the separator option. The second mode allows you to separate the list items using a regular expression. For example, if the input list is comma- and colon-separated, then you can use the regex /[,:]/. You can also immediately reformat the unique output list by setting a new item separator. Listabulous!
In this example, we find all unique car plate numbers in a long list of vehicle registration plates. As all plates are separated by a comma, we select the mode that separates the list items by a character and enter the comma symbol in the item separator field. As some of the numbers are surrounded by spaces, we activate the trim-items option so that the items are compared only by their real content and not spaces around them. We also enable the skip-empty-items option to avoid processing empty items and set the asterisk symbol to be the new separator in the output list of unique license plates.
In this example, we load a grocery store shopping list. As it's a list of products for two people, several of the products appear in the list twice. The products that are just one person are entered just once. To quickly find the products that have a single copy, we activate the "Find Absolutely Unique Items" option, and in the output, we find that there are four such products.
This example filters a list of astrological signs and finds only the unique values. They are returned in the output as a new list. Since the input list uses both a dash and a tilde character as item delimiter, we switch to the regular expression delimiter mode and enter the regexp /[-~]/ in the separator field. We also remove all leading and trailing whitespaces in the signs and display them one per line.
In this example, we find the unique elements of a list in a case-sensitive way. We split the list items via the regular expression "\s+" (which means one or more spaces or newlines) and see that some of the items have the same spelling but different meanings (such words are called homographs). Namely, the words "may" and "May" differ only by the first capital letter yet at the same time they have completely different meanings. Therefore, to consider these two items as different items, we turn on the "Case Sensitive Items" option.
The input list in this example is very unusual. The values of the list are musical notes that start with a treble clef and the item separator is a five-line staff symbol. To find unique list elements that are notes, we select the split by character mode and enter the symbol "𝄚" in the delimiter option. We get four unique notes in the output (and the starting treble clef) that we separate by the regular space character.
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
View and edit lists in a neat browser-based list editor.
Split list items into chunks.
Create the powerlist of the given list.
Extract the first item from a list.
Extract all items except the first of a list.
Run a JavaScript function on every list item (map function).
Run the reduce function on a list.
Quickly find and print items that interest you in a list.
Quickly find and print items that repeat in a list.
Quickly find and remove items that are unique in a list.
Given start and stop indexes, extract a sublist from a list.
Shift list items to the left or right (or up and down).
Add indentation to all list items.
Make a list go increasingly sideways (to the left or right).
Quickly create a mirror copy of a list.
Invert the order of items in a list (last becomes first, etc).
Create multiple rows from a single list.
Create an Excel (XLS/XLSX) file from a list.
Create a PDF file from a list.
Create a LaTeX list from a regular text list.
Create a HTML list from a regular text list.
Create a Markdown list from a regular text list.
Find the difference between two lists.
Find the difference between three lists.
Remove elements from a list that appear in the other list.
Find items that are shared between two or more lists.
Find items that are unique in two or more lists.
Join two or more lists together item by item.
Split an interleaved list into two or more separate lists.
Append a second list at the end of the first list.
Create pairs from all list items.
Remove list items at certain index positions.
Add new items at the end of a list.
Modify a list in-place by adding, replacing, or removing items.
Remove all indentation levels from a list and make it flat.
Quickly apply the bold effect to all list items.
Quickly apply the italic effect to all list items.
Quickly rewrite all list items in cursive.
Quickly change the font of all list items.
Quickly add an underscore to all list items.
Quickly add a strikethrough to all list items.
Quickly change the letter case of all items to title case.
Quickly change the letter case of all items to proper case.
Quickly randomly change the letter case of all items.
Quickly change the letter case of all items to small letters.
Quickly change the letter case of all items to capital letters.
Quickly remove any numeration from a list of items.
Generate a list with no items (just bullet points).
Quickly create a graphical representation of a list.
Create an image with a cloud of list items.
Create an image with list items going in a spiral.
Make list items go in a zigzag.
Add errors and corruption to a list.
Convert any list to base64 encoding.
Convert any list from base64 encoding back to a list.
Convert any list to URL encoding.
Convert any list from URL encoding back to a list.
Create a JSON array from a list.
Create a list from a JSON array.
Create an XML document from a list.
Create a list from an XML document.
Create a YAML file from a list.
Create a list from a YAML file.
Create a binary list from a text list.
Create a text list from a binary list.
Compress a list so it uses less space.
Create an animation with a list being scrolled.
Let Zalgo loose on a list and create list-chaos.
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