Re: st: How to list just the first case meeting a selection criterion?

[Michelle Garrison <garrison@u.washington.edu>]

You could do:

* sort county precinct
* by county precinct: list name address1 address2 county precinct city 
state if _n == 1

There may well be a more streamlined method, though.

paul gronke wrote:

> I am dealing with an extremely large (2 gig) dataset and wish to list
> just the first case that meets a set of criteria.  There are about 200
> separate sets of criteria (county and precinct values).
>
> Thus, I'd like a command that does something like:
>
> list name address1 address2 county precinct city state
>      if [first one of] county=VALUE & precinct=VALUE 
> repeated about 200 times.

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