Re: A function to find errors in groups in a table

The first two can be regarded right. Certainly, the last one must be
wrong. How can a primary flow get into a secondary flow?

That is odd.

Regards,

David

On Thursday, 9 June 2022, Steve Midgley <science(at)misuse(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 6:37 AM Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> There is a table full of grouped values like the following
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>> nodeid link_type primary
>> 11 outflowlink 1
>> 11 inflowlink 1
>> 11 outflowlink 2
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>> Primary of 1 indicates a primary water course. Primary of 2 indicates a
>> secondary water course.
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>> Obviously, one of the out flow links is an error, as its primacy value is
>> 2. It is wrong that water flows from a primary water course into a
>> secondary water course.
>>
>> How can a function can be designed to find and report such errors?
>>
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> Is the problem that there exists this row:
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> 11 outflowlink 2
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> But there is no corresponding row:
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> 11 inflowlink 2
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> So that you need to find all "orphan" rows that don't have a corresponding
> member with the opposing data field inflowlink or outflowlink where the
> "primary" column is the join field between the two rows?
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> Thanks for clarifying your problem,
> Steve
>