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Old 01-29-2013
Compare two arrays

Hi,

I am trying to compare two lists that are held in two variables so I believe I need to access the array elements to compare these. I am using ksh 88 and the code I have tried is below:

Code:
for file in ${origfilelist}
do
        if [[ "${file}" != $failfiles[@] ]]
        then
                print -- "File ${file} not found "
        else
                print -- "File ${file} found"
        fi
done

Unfortunately all are being flagged up as 'not found' when I know there are some of the same filenames in both variables.

Thanks.

Last edited by frodo61; 01-29-2013 at 07:59 AM..
# 2  
Old 01-29-2013
For lists you could do something like:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

A="1 2 3 4"
B="5 6 2 7"

for a in $A; do
        for b in $B; do
                (( $a == $b )) && print $a
        done
done

exit 0

For arrays you'll have to declare them with set -A ..... and cycle through their elements by incrementing the index. Though it would be most likely 2 loops in each other like the example above.

Update:
Here an example with an array without incrementing the indexes and comparing strings instead of numbers.
But when there is no need for indexes, maybe a list will be sufficient instead of arrays. But when having spaces in file names it might be easier to use them as array elements than in a list (depending how the separator IFS is defined and used in the list of course).

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

set -A ARR1 1 2 3 4
set -A ARR2 5 6 2 7

for a in ${ARR1[*]}; do
        for b in ${ARR2[*]}; do
                [[ "$a" = "$b" ]] && print $a
        done
done

exit 0


Last edited by zaxxon; 01-29-2013 at 08:45 AM.. Reason: no automatic update, merging posts
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# 3  
Old 01-30-2013
Thanks. The nested for loop works but if I want to output files that arent found as well I get repeated messages due to not matching to any of the array elements, how could I only output the filenames that arent found just once? I guess I could put them into another variable and then use the uniq command maybe?

Code:
for orig in ${origfilelist}
do
        for fail in ${failfiles}
        do
                if [[ ${orig} == ${fail} ]]
                then
                print -- "File ${orig} found "
else
print -- "File ${orig} not found"
                fi
        done
 
done

Thanks

p.s I though all variables were arrays?

---------- Post updated 30-01-13 at 09:17 AM ---------- Previous update was 29-01-13 at 01:11 PM ----------

Although I still would like the answer to the previous question I also need to know how to output the array elements onto different lines in a text file?

IFS solutions dont seem to be working.

Code:
 
OLDIFS="$IFS"; IFS=$'\n'
echo "${failagain[*]}" >>"${reloadfiles}"/results.txt
IFS="$OLDIFS"

I have now been able to output to single lines by using another for loop.

Code:
 
for i in ${failagain[*]}
do
echo $i >>"${reloadfiles}"/results.txt
done


Last edited by frodo61; 01-30-2013 at 06:10 AM..
# 4  
Old 02-03-2013
Here is an example how you could cycle and compare array elements (example with integers) and print only those from array 1, which are not in array 2:
Code:
$ cat ./mach.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh

set -A ARR1 4 1 3 2
set -A ARR2 5 6 2 7 4 8

MAX=$((${#ARR2[*]}-1))

for a in ${ARR1[*]}; do
        COUNT=0
        set -A HITS
        for b in ${ARR2[*]}; do
                (( $a != $b )) && \
                HITS[$COUNT]=$a && \
                let COUNT+=1
        done
        (( ${#HITS[*]} != $MAX )) && \
        print ${HITS[0]}
        unset HITS
done

exit 0

$ ./mach.ksh
1
3

Somehow there is a blank line at the end. Didn't find where it comes from Smilie

Maybe other people have more efficient algorithm to do this which would be interessting for me too.

If you have 2 files with the lists of files you might want to compare, a grep -f file1 file2 or grep -vf file1 file2 might be more efficient than my example.
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