I have an excel spreadsheet with two columns. The first column is a label the second column is a numeric value. I would like to remove all the duplicate labels in column “A” and remain with the maximun numeric value in column “B”. I’ve tried to illustrate below (the filter would result in “Consolidated Sheet” given “Original Sheet”:
NOTE 1: I’m trying to parse mail server log files to get a listing of hosts and their maximum SMTP connections on any particular day. If you can suggest a way of doing this on windows (even if it means using Strawberry Perl) I’d appreciate the solution.
NOTE 2: You might have to use your imagination with the “spreadsheet” I’ve diagrammed below, I tried putting each row in an individual line but all rows are rendering in a single line. [EDIT] Fixed it by putting everything in an unordered list.
“Original Sheet”
- colA, colB
- name1, 32.0,
- name1, 12.5,
- name1, 11.0,
- name1, 10.1,
- name1, 6.9,
- name2, 2.3,
- name2, 1.1,
- name2, 0.9,
- name3, 54,
- name3, 60,
- name3, 101,
- name3, 12,
“Consolidated Sheet”
- colA, colB
- name1, 32.0,
- name2, 2.3,
- name3, 101,
Regards,
emk
Could you not just use Excel’s Pivot Table functionality?