How to make duplicated values unique according to a rule
I have a list of values that are all the same length and end take the
form xxxxxxLO
where x is any letter A-Z.
Several rows contain the same value and I want to make these unique
according to the following rule:
locate next value
check if it's a duplicate
if not move on
else ignore the first instance and replace LO with AB, AC, AD...etc
for all subsequent duplicates
so where I previously had
ABCDEFGLO
ABCDEFGLO
ABCDEFGLO
ABCDEFGLO
ABCDEFGLO
DDGFTGELO
DDGFTGELO
DDGFTGELO
I would now have:
ABCDEFGLO
ABCDEFGAB
ABCDEFGAC
ABCDEFGAD
ABCDEFGAE
DDGFTGELO
DDGFTGEAB
DDGFTGEAC
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