Intersecting data question/challenge

[Chris Sheffield]

Could you make use of the split command somehow?  You would have to  
format your lists a little differently, but if you did it right and  
specified a primary and secondary delimiter, you might be able to get  
quick results and still take advantage of the intersect command.   
Anyway, just another idea.

Chris Sheffield


On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

> Eric,
>
> 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.
>
> Dennis

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