Re: how to get index of array B data in array A

[davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Gary Fu (gfu@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:

> Is there a simple way to get the index of the array B data in array A ?
> 
> For example : A = [10,20,30,40,50],  B = [10, 20, 33, 10, 30, 40, 9]
> I want like to get the index array of B in A [0, 1, -1, 0, 2, 3, -1]

I'm afraid you are stuck doing this in a loop because of
the way the WHERE function compares unequally-sized arrays.
But you can certainly do something like this:

   A = [10,20,30,40,50]
   B = [10, 20, 33, 10, 30, 40, 9]
   C = Indgen(N_Elements(B))
   FOR j=0, N_Elements(B)-1 do C[j] = (Where(A EQ B[j]))[0]
   Print, C
         0       1      -1       0       2       3      -1

Cheers,

David
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