by Bob Crawford <Snowman42@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM
On Apr 25, 9:45=A0am, "Ryan." <rchug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Having a routine that will compare two string arrays of different
> sizes would be very useful to me. =A0Does anyone know of a routine that
> previously exists that is able to compare two string arrays and return
> the common elements as well as some keyword to return the differing
> elements? =A0I could write some routine that would do it but due to my
> limited knowledge of IDL it probably won't be efficient.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan.
Check out:
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/set_operations.html
It seems like Craig Markwardt's CMSET_OP will do what you're looking
for.
http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html
Bob.
(who just spent time coding his own... then found the above)