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[David Mintz]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Jon Baer wrote:

> dont think u need to sort, u could just merge results:
>
> $array1 = array(1,2,3);
> $array2 = array(2,3,4);
> $array3 = array_merge(array_diff($array1, $array2), array_diff($array2,
> $array1));
> print_r($array3);
>
> but i think u r right there should be a "array_diff_recursive" method or
> something.

that makes sense. I ended up doing this, because all i really need is a
boolean

function isDifferent($array1,$array2) {
    return sizeof(array_diff($array1,$array2)) +
        sizeof(array_diff($array2,$array1)) > 0 ;
}

and I guess that's sane... Sane Enough, to coin a phrase

thanks!


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