>
> I have a csv string in a text field that is unsorted and contains duplicates.
> Is there a simple way to remove these and sort the string.
>
> E.g
> 2,18,20,23,1,27,1,2,8,16,17,18,20,22,23,27
>
Do you need to eventually load the data in Postgres?
I'd personally use python to deal with this, we're talking 4 or 5 lines here,
if even. I suspect you can do the same with perl or ruby or whatever is your
weapon of choice.
How columns does your csv file has? Is it a one-line file?
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