changed

changed(a: ‘a) 🡒 boolean, ordered aggregator

The aggregator returns true for the first line of each group, and for each line that is different from the previous one. It requires an ordering option, either sort or scan.

table T = with 
  [| as Val |]
  [| "a" |] // changed = true
  [| "a" |]
  [| "b" |] // changed = true
  [| "b" |]
  [| "b" |]
  [| "c" |] // changed = true

show table "" a1b6 with
  T.Val
  changed(T.Val) scan auto

This aggregator is intended to facilitate skipping unchanged lines while persisting data, like historical prices.

The number variant of this aggregator is equivalent to the user-defined process as defined below:

def process changed_bis(next: number) default false with
  keep prev = 0
  changed = prev != next
  prev = next
  return argfirst() or changed