How can I remove rows with unique values? As in only keeping rows with duplicate values?

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Published on 2012-06-14T14:21:45Z Indexed on 2012/06/15 21:17 UTC
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Here's the conundrum, I'm a complete and utter noob when it comes to programming. I understand the basics, but am still learning javascript.

I have a spreadsheet of surveys, in which I need to see how particular users have varied over time. As such, I need to disregard all rows with unique values in a particular column. The data looks like this:

Response Date           Response_ID Account_ID  Q.1
10/20/2011 12:03:43 PM  23655956    1168161     8
10/20/2011 03:52:57 PM  23660161    1168152     0
10/21/2011 10:55:54 AM  23672903    1166121     7
10/23/2011 04:28:16 PM  23694471    1144756     9
10/25/2011 06:30:52 AM  23732674    1167449     7
10/25/2011 07:52:28 AM  23734597    1087618     5

I've found a way to do so in VBA, which sucks as I have to use excel, per below:

    Sub Del_Unique()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Columns("B:B").Insert Shift:=xlToRight
    Columns("A:A").Copy Destination:=Columns("B:B")
    i = Application.CountIf(Range("A:A"), "<>") + 50
    If i > 65536 Then i = 65536
    Do
    If Application.CountIf(Range("B:B"), Range("A" & i)) = 1 Then
    Rows(i).Delete
    End If
    i = i - 1
    Loop Until i = 0
    Columns("B:B").Delete
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    End Sub

But that requires mucking about. I'd really like to do it in Google Spreadsheets with a script that won't have to be changed. Closest I can get is retrieving all duplicate user ids from the range, but can't associate that with the row. That code follows: function findDuplicatesInSelection() { var activeRange = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange(); var values = activeRange.getValues();

  // values that appear at least once
  var once = {};

  // values that appear at least twice
  var twice = {};

  // values that appear at least twice, stored in a pretty fashion!
  var final = [];

  for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
     var inner = values[i];
    for (var j = 0; j < inner.length; j++) {
      var cell = inner[j];
      if (cell == "") continue;
      if (once.hasOwnProperty(cell)) {
        if (!twice.hasOwnProperty(cell)) {
          final.push(cell);
        }
        twice[cell] = 1;
      } else {
        once[cell] = 1;
      }
    }
  }

  if (final.length == 0) {
    Browser.msgBox("No duplicates found");
  } else {
    Browser.msgBox("Duplicates are: " + final);
  }
}

Anyhow, sorry if this is the wrong place or format, but half of what I've found so far has been from stack, I thought it was a good place to start.

Thanks!

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