Remove repeated values in a CSV string

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I have a string with comma separated values, and would like to delete the repeated values so that there are no repeats in my string.
mystring = '1,1,1,25,33,33,5,5,3,2,1,1'
Iwant = '1,25,33,5,3,2'
The order of the numbers in "Iwant" is not important. It could be '1,25,33,5,3,2' or "1,33,5,25,3,2" or "2,3,5,33,1,25" (whatever works).
I have many other strings I would like to edit, so it would be great if the code could apply to a string with any manner of numbers in it.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Apr 2019
Are the values certain to be numeric? Are they certain to be integer? If they might be floating point, then would 25.70 be considered different than 25.7 ?
Matthew Tyler Jeffries
Matthew Tyler Jeffries on 19 Apr 2019
Yes, the values will always be numeric, no decimals, no fractions, no negative numbers.

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Stephan
Stephan on 19 Apr 2019
Edited: Stephan on 19 Apr 2019
mystring = '1,1,1,25,33,33,5,5,3,2,1,1'
iwant = join(unique(split(string(mystring),',')),',')
results in a string:
mystring =
'1,1,1,25,33,33,5,5,3,2,1,1'
iwant =
"1,2,25,3,33,5"
Note, that you speak of string, but use char type. if you want char as result use this instead:
iwant = char(join(unique(split(string(mystring),',')),','))

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