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    Default Removing duplicate words from a file

    There is a file with data and i have to remove the duplicate words from a file and write the non repeated words to other file. Does anyone have tried the optimal solution for this?


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    Default Re: Removing duplicate words from a file

    What about the straight forward, simple solution? Do you have that working? Then worry about making it optimal.

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    Default Re: Removing duplicate words from a file

    My idea is to read all the words in a file in to a LinkedHashSet. And once the file read we can write the contents of LinkedHashSet to a second file.

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