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Re: Succinct way of testing array membership [message #81204 is a reply to message #81203]

Thu, 30 August 2012 09:59

Russell Ryan
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On Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:51:48 PM UTC-4, godber wrote:
> Is there a more succinct way of testing array membership than using where and n_elements on the indexes? Something like array_contains(a, 'pancakes')?
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> Austin

wouldn't that just be liek this:

suppose:
t=['pancakes','eggs','milk','sausage'] ;array to test

then:
g=where(strmatch(t,'pancakes',/fold),n) ;the line testing it
if n ne 0 then print,'Its in the array!'

-russell

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		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: wlandsman on Thu, 30 August 2012 12:16
		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 30 August 2012 10:09
		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: Russell Ryan on Thu, 30 August 2012 09:59
		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: DavidF[1] on Thu, 30 August 2012 09:57
		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: godber on Thu, 30 August 2012 13:57
		Re: Succinct way of testing array membership By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 30 August 2012 14:12

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