ah, but to finish the quote...

I would now like to loop thro the NewCollection and
count occurrences of each string in the array.

OK, I'm done... :-)

In article ,
"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I quote

I would now like to loop thro the NewCollection and
count occurrences of each string

"JE McGimpsey" wrote in message
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The routine eliminates duplicates in the *collection*, not the array.

In article ,
"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Surely, if you have eliminated duplicates, they all occur just once.