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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using Bash scripting to compare arrays looking for matches Post 302365978 by karlp on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 12:38:08 PM
Old 10-28-2009
I was not aware that compare allowed only output of matches... Also, I'm afraid I'm not sure how I would iterate through an array.

My idea so far was to take the third array (shortlist) and compare it to the others one at a time by using the list as an input to grep. Conceptually:

Generate two long lists
Input into arrays
Generate short list
Input into array
Feed short list into grep and compare against the first long list
-No matches? Go on.
- Matches? Print and go on.
Compare against the second list
-Matches? Print and go on.
-No matches? Go on.

I have a script so far that generates the arrays from a few different files.

I guess I just need to figure out how to input a file, line by line, into grep so that grep would use the first line, and look for it in the array (or a file? can grep check arrays?) then take the second line, etc.
 

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ARRAY_DIFF(3)								 1							     ARRAY_DIFF(3)

array_diff - Computes the difference of arrays

SYNOPSIS
array array_diff (array $array1, array $array2, [array $...]) DESCRIPTION
Compares $array1 against one or more other arrays and returns the values in $array1 that are not present in any of the other arrays. PARAMETERS
o $array1 - The array to compare from o $array2 - An array to compare against o $... - More arrays to compare against RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing all the entries from $array1 that are not present in any of the other arrays. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_diff(3) example <?php $array1 = array("a" => "green", "red", "blue", "red"); $array2 = array("b" => "green", "yellow", "red"); $result = array_diff($array1, $array2); print_r($result); ?> Multiple occurrences in $array1 are all treated the same way. This will output : Array ( [1] => blue ) NOTES
Note Two elements are considered equal if and only if (string) $elem1 === (string) $elem2. In words: when the string representation is the same. Note This function only checks one dimension of a n-dimensional array. Of course you can check deeper dimensions by using array_diff($array1[0], $array2[0]);. SEE ALSO
array_diff_assoc(3), array_intersect(3), array_intersect_assoc(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_DIFF(3)
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