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Re: comparing arrays [message #181038 is a reply to message #181035]

Sun, 07 April 2013 12:34

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/7/2013 7:34 AM, bill wrote:
> I need to see if a patient has appointments with a psychotherapist and a
> physician on the same day.
>
> I request the schedule of each therapist and each physician as arrays of
> arrays:
> time, patient_number, duration (note, the therapist/physician id is not
> in the array)
> They are non-associative arrays (numeric keys)
> I might have 1..n physicians and 1..n therapists
> I can generate arrays of physicians and arrays of therapists
>
> Option 1 is a nightmare of nested foreachs
>
> I am sure there must be an array function that will permit this check.
> AFAIK, the _intersect functions require the same date in all, when what
> I want is "any".
>
> my current thought is to create arrays of just pt_number, merge the
> physician arrays, merge the therapist arrays, array_flip to move the
> values to keys and then array_intersect.
>
> But, before I try that I welcome any suggestions.
>
> bill

Does the information come from a SQL database? If so, I'd do it in SQL.

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		comparing arrays By: bill on Sun, 07 April 2013 11:34
		Re: comparing arrays By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 07 April 2013 12:34
		Re: comparing arrays By: bill on Sun, 07 April 2013 14:00
		Re: comparing arrays By: Frank Steinmetzger on Sun, 07 April 2013 14:14
		Re: comparing arrays By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 07 April 2013 15:13
		Re: comparing arrays By: bill on Sun, 07 April 2013 15:34
		Re: comparing arrays By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 07 April 2013 19:33
		Re: comparing arrays By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 07 April 2013 18:18
		Re: comparing arrays By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 07 April 2013 13:37
		Re: comparing arrays By: bill on Sun, 07 April 2013 13:59
		Re: comparing arrays By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 07 April 2013 15:14
		Re: comparing arrays By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 07 April 2013 14:59
		Re: comparing arrays By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 07 April 2013 15:01
		Re: comparing arrays By: Frank Steinmetzger on Sun, 07 April 2013 18:22

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