Removing Duplicates in a List

[Captain_Special]

Hello. I have a series of 4 lists of numbers, and I want to combine the lists into one long list, with no duplicates (if there are any).

For example, given the following lists:
a - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
b - (1,3,5,7,9,11,13)
c - (2, 8, 10, 15, 16)
d - (2, 3, 4, 5)

I want to get a single list e comprised of (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,15,16) using CFML. If this is something better accomplished within a CFSCRIPT, that would be fine. I just can't find the information to do this in the documentation I have.

Thanks!

[Stressed_Simon]

You can do this with some native Java, but do please be aware that this wont maintain the list order.

[Dan_Bracuk]

NewList ="";
for (i =1; lte ListLen(ListA; i = i + 1) {
if (ListFind(NewList, ListGetAt(ListA, i) is false) {
NewList = ListAppend(NewList(ListGetAt(ListA, i));
}
}
Loop through other lists and do the same thing. Like Simon's solution, this won't be sorted.

[Guest]

I have a function that I use for this task. You could easily change it to accept an array of lists rather than a single list, if desired, and to sort (or you can just sort the result yourself).