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SOLVED Number of symbols in array

I have about 200 seperate characters in an array with duplicates, I want to work out the number of characters in the array excluding duplicates. How would I do so?

Example
Lets say the array was:

[A,B,A,C,B,C]

I'd only count the first A the first B and the first C meaning the result would be 3

Thank you for the help!
 
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FrostyCat

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GML:
var i, seenChars, currentChar, uniqueN;
seenChars = ds_map_create();
uniqueN = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 6; i += 1) {
    currentChar = arr[i];
    if (!ds_map_exists(seenChars, currentChar)) {
        ds_map_add(seenChars, currentChar, true);
        uniqueN += 1;
    }
}
ds_map_destroy(seenChars);
/* Use uniqueN here */
 
GML:
var i, seenChars, currentChar, uniqueN;
seenChars = ds_map_create();
uniqueN = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 6; i += 1) {
    currentChar = arr[i];
    if (!ds_map_exists(seenChars, currentChar)) {
        ds_map_add(seenChars, currentChar, true);
        uniqueN += 1;
    }
}
ds_map_destroy(seenChars);
/* Use uniqueN here */
Thank you so much!
 
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