Re comma separated List - another question

[Craig Keightley]

I can do the match perfectly but what i also need to do is create a third
list of comma separated values that are in both

eg:

List 1 => 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ,11
List 2 => 1,3,4,5,6,7,10, 23

Therefore

List 3 => 1,3,4,5,6,7

How do I populate this third list - I'm really stuck
"Craig Keightley" <do**@spam.me > wrote in message
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Ken that functions works a treat
I have modified it to do waht i need it to do by including it in a loop of
other lists and showing if they are a match or not

Many thanks

Craig
"Ken Robinson" <ke******@rbnsn .com> wrote in message
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Craig Keightley wrote:

is it possible to compare acomma separated list aginst another

eg comma list 1 => 1,2,3,4,5
comma list 2 => 3,5
can you check that 3 is in both, and 5 is in both, therfore they

match???

the comparison is to check that if product a who supplies products

1,2,3,4,5

can be used instead of product b who supplies 3,5 as product a

already

supplies them

Here's a pure PHP solution I just created:
<?
function comp_csv($s1,$s 2)
{
$tmp1 = explode(',',$s1 );
$tmp2 = explode(',',$s2 );
$tmp3 = array_intersect ($tmp1,$tmp2);
$smaller_array = (count($tmp1) < count($tmp2))?$ tmp1:$tmp2;
$smaller_count = count($smaller_ array);
$inboth = FALSE;
if (count($tmp3) == $smaller_count)
if (count(array_di ff($tmp3,$small er_array)) == 0) $inboth =
TRUE;
return($inboth) ;
}

$csv1 = '1,2,3,4,5';
$csv2 = '3,5';
$x = comp_csv($csv1, $csv2);
var_dump($x);
?>
The function:
1) creates temporary arrays from the CSV strings
2) gets the intersection between the two arrays, which should have no
more elements than the smaller array. It can have less.
3) if it has the same number of elements as the smaller array, it
checks whether the it's elements are the same as those in the smaller
array. If so, the returned value is set to TRUE

Ken
BTW, followups changed to just comp.lang.php

[Ken Robinson]

Craig Keightley wrote:

I can do the match perfectly but what i also need to do is create a third list of comma separated values that are in both

eg:

List 1 => 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ,11
List 2 => 1,3,4,5,6,7,10, 23

Therefore

List 3 => 1,3,4,5,6,7

How do I populate this third list - I'm really stuck

The array_intersect () function returns an array of consisting of all
the elements that are in both arrays. The implode() function can be
used to turn that array back into a CSV string.

<?
$str_1 = '1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8,11';
$str_2 = '1,3,4,5,6,7,10 ,23';
$str_3 =
implode(',',arr ay_intersect(ex plode(',',$str_ 1),explode(',', $str_2)));
echo $str_3;
?>

Ken