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set_c

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Procedure
Abstract
Required_Reading
Keywords
Brief_I/O
Detailed_Input
Detailed_Output
Parameters
Exceptions
Files
Particulars
Examples
Restrictions
Literature_References
Author_and_Institution
Version
Index_Entries

Procedure

   set_c ( Compare sets ) 

   SpiceBoolean set_c (  SpiceCell        * a,
                         ConstSpiceChar   * op,
                         SpiceCell        * b   )

Abstract

   Compare two sets of any data type, as indicated by a relational operator.

Required_Reading

   CELLS
   SETS

Keywords

   CELLS
   SETS


Brief_I/O

   VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION
   --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
   a          I   First set.
   op         I   Comparison operator.
   b          I   Second set.

   The function returns the result of the comparison: a (op) b.

Detailed_Input

   a           is a SPICE set.

               `a' must be declared as a character, double precision or
               integer SpiceCell.

               CSPICE provides the following macros, which declare and
               initialize the cell

                  SPICECHAR_CELL          ( a, ASZ, AMLEN );
                  SPICEDOUBLE_CELL        ( a, ASZ );
                  SPICEINT_CELL           ( a, ASZ );

               where ASZ is the maximum capacity of `a' and AMLEN is the
               maximum length of any member in the character cell.

   op          is a comparison operator, indicating the way in
               which the input sets are to be compared. `op' may
               be any of the following:

                  Operator             Meaning
                  --------  -------------------------------------
                    "="     a = b is true if a and b are equal
                            (contain the same elements).

                    "<>"    a <> b is true if a and b are not
                            equal.

                    "<="    a <= b is true if a is a subset of b.

                    "<"     a < b is true if a is a proper subset
                            of b.

                    ">="    a >= b is true if b is a subset of a.

                    ">"     a > b is true if b is a proper subset
                            of a.

                    "&"     a & b is true if a and b have one or more
                            elements in common (the intersection of
                            the two sets in non-empty.)

                    "~"     a ~ b is true if a and b are disjoint
                            sets.

               When comparing elements of character sets, this routine
               ignores trailing blanks.

   b           is a second SPICE set, to be compared to `a'.

               `b' must be declared as a SpiceCell of the same data type
               as `a'.

               CSPICE provides the following macros, which declare and
               initialize the cell

                  SPICECHAR_CELL          ( b, BSZ, BMLEN );
                  SPICEDOUBLE_CELL        ( b, BSZ );
                  SPICEINT_CELL           ( b, BSZ );

               where BSZ is the maximum capacity of `b' and BMLEN is the
               maximum length of any member in the character cell.

Detailed_Output

   The function returns the result of the comparison: a (op) b.

Parameters

   None.

Exceptions

   1)  If the set relational operator is not recognized, the error
       SPICE(INVALIDOPERATION) is signaled by a routine in the call tree
       of this routine.

   2)  If the `op' input string pointer is null, the error
       SPICE(NULLPOINTER) is signaled.

   3)  If the `op' input string has zero length, the error
       SPICE(EMPTYSTRING) is signaled.

   4)  If the `a' and `c' cell arguments do not have identical data
       types, the error SPICE(TYPEMISMATCH) is signaled.

   5)  If any of the `a' or `c' cell arguments does not qualify as a
       SPICE set, the error SPICE(NOTASET) is signaled. SPICE sets
       have their data elements stored in increasing order and contain
       no duplicate elements.

   6)  If any of the `a' or `c' cell arguments does not have a
       recognized data type, the error SPICE(NOTSUPPORTED) is signaled.

   7)  If the cell arguments are of type SpiceChar and the string length
       associated with any of them is non-positive or too short to be
       usable when constructing the equivalent SPICE character cells
       required by the wrapped SPICELIB routine, an error is signaled by
       a routine in the call tree of this routine.

Files

   None.

Particulars

   None.

Examples

   1) In the following code fragment, set_c is used to repeat an operation
      for as long as the integer set finished remains a proper
      subset of the integer set planned.

         #include "SpiceUsr.h"
               .
               .
               .
         while (  set_c( &finished, "<", &planned )  )
         {
               .
               .
               .
         }


   2) In the following example, let the integer sets a, b, and c
      contain the elements listed below. Let e be an empty integer
      set.

         a        b        c
        ---      ---      ---
         1        1        1
         2        3        3
         3
         4

   Then all of the following expressions are SPICETRUE.

      set_c ( b, "=",  c )      "b is equal to c"
      set_c ( a, "<>", c )      "a is not equal to c"
      set_c ( a, ">",  b )      "a is a proper superset of b"
      set_c ( b, "<=", c )      "b is a subset of c"
      set_c ( c, "<=", b )      "c is a subset of b"
      set_c ( a, "<=", a )      "a is a subset of a"
      set_c ( e, "<=", b )      "e is a subset of b"
      set_c ( e, "<",  b )      "e is a proper subset of b"
      set_c ( e, "<=", e )      "e is a subset of e"
      set_c ( a, "&",  b )      "a has elements in common with b."
      set_c ( b, "&",  c )      "b has elements in common with c."

   And all of the following are SPICEFALSE.

      set_c ( b, "<>", c )      "b is not equal to c"
      set_c ( a, "=",  c )      "a is equal to c"
      set_c ( a, "<",  b )      "a is a proper subset of b"
      set_c ( b, "<",  c )      "b is a proper subset of c"
      set_c ( b, ">=", a )      "b is a superset of a"
      set_c ( a, ">",  a )      "a is a proper superset of a"
      set_c ( e, ">=", a )      "e is a superset of a"
      set_c ( e, "<",  e )      "e is a proper subset of e"
      set_c ( a, "~",  b )      "a and b are disjoint sets."

Restrictions

   1)  String comparisons performed by this routine are Fortran-style:
       trailing blanks in the input sets are ignored. This gives
       consistent behavior with CSPICE code generated by the f2c
       translator, as well as with the Fortran SPICE Toolkit.

       Note that this behavior is not identical to that of the ANSI
       C library functions strcmp and strncmp.

Literature_References

   None.

Author_and_Institution

   N.J. Bachman        (JPL)
   C.A. Curzon         (JPL)
   J. Diaz del Rio     (ODC Space)
   W.L. Taber          (JPL)
   I.M. Underwood      (JPL)

Version

   -CSPICE Version 1.1.1, 29-OCT-2021 (JDR)

       Edited the header to comply with NAIF standard.

       Extended description of arguments "a", and "b" to include
       type and preferred declaration method.

       Added entries #5 and #6 in -Exceptions section.

   -CSPICE Version 1.1.0, 15-FEB-2005 (NJB)

       Bug fix: loop bound changed from 1 to 2 in loop used
       to free dynamically allocated arrays.

   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 08-AUG-2002 (NJB) (CAC) (WLT) (IMU)

Index_Entries

   compare sets
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