To compare any two groups, you'd do something like:
sub is_ok
{
my ($x, $y) = @_;
my (%x, %y);
@x{@$x} = 1;
@y{@$y} = 1;
foreach my $k (keys %x)
{
return 0 if exists $y{$k};
}
return 1;
}
Put in a loop, as necessary. Lather, rinse, repeat.
A few notes:
- This will work with groups of arbitrary size and will also work with groups of different sizes.
- It will also work with groups that contain arbitrary data.
- It will throw warnings if any of the elements are undef.
- It does string comparisons, so 2, 4, 6 and 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 may or may not be ok. I will leave numeric comparisons as an exercise for the reader.
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