Find Unique Characters in a File

Question

I have a file with 450,000+ rows of entries. Each entry is about 7 characters in length. What I want to know is the unique characters of this file.

For instance, if my f

Answer 1

Try this file with JSDB Javascript (includes the javascript engine in the Firefox browser):

var seenAlreadyMap={};
var seenAlreadyArray=[];
while (!system.stdin.eof)
{
  var L = system.stdin.readLine();
  for (var i = L.length; i-- > 0; )
  {
    var c = L[i].toLowerCase();
    if (!(c in seenAlreadyMap))
    {
      seenAlreadyMap[c] = true;
      seenAlreadyArray.push(c);
    }
  }
}
system.stdout.writeln(seenAlreadyArray.sort().join(''));