Re: Comparing arrays

sort the array, join it with a null, then do a compare.

my $ary1 = join(/\0/, sort(@array1));
my $ary2 = join(/\0/, sort(@array2));
if ($ary1 eq $ary2) {....}
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Re: Re: Comparing arrays by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 25, 2002 at 12:04 UTC
But of course if you do a sort first then you loose the position of the elements in the array. If the position of the elements is not significant, this is a good solution. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]