Intersecting data question/challenge

[Eric Chatonet]

Hello Dennis,

You are right.
I was a little bit fast.
At least more than 2 repeat loops ;-)

Le 8 juil. 05 à 20:50, Dennis Brown a écrit :

> Yes, I looked at the intersect command, but it performs the action  
> on the keys not the data from a list.  I would have to create an  
> array element for each integer in the list with the integer as the  
> key.  Sounded like two loops that would run even slower than my  
> example:
>
> repeat for each item theItem in list1
>   put empty into myArray1[theItem]
> end repeat
> repeat for each item theItem in list2
>   put empty into myArray2[theItem]
> end repeat
> intersect myArray1 with myArray2
> if the keys of myArray1 is empty then get false else get true
>
> In actual practice, the above example runs 3 times slower than the  
> below example for the sample data shown.
>
> However, knowing that Rev had such a command for the keys, I  
> thought perhaps someone knew of a more clever way to use it, or  
> maybe there was another way to intersect data.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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