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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA. |
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20 ## usage: complement (a, b) |
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21 ## |
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22 ## Returns the elements of set b that are not in set a. |
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23 ## |
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24 ## See - create_set, union, intersection |
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25 |
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26 ## Author: jwe |
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27 |
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28 function y = complement (a, b) |
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29 |
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30 if (nargin != 2) |
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31 usage ("complement(a,b)"); |
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32 endif |
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33 |
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34 if (isempty (a)) |
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35 y = create_set(b); |
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36 elseif (isempty (b)) |
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37 y = []; |
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38 else |
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39 a = create_set (a); |
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40 b = create_set (b); |
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41 yindex = 1; |
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42 y = zeros (1, length (b)); |
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43 for index = 1:length (b) |
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44 if (all (a != b (index))) |
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45 y(yindex++) = b(index); |
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46 endif |
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47 endfor |
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48 y = y(1:(yindex-1)); |
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49 endif |
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50 |
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51 endfunction |
