Re: faster sublist checking
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- Subject: [mg48887] Re: faster sublist checking
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Both evaluate to True at my machine (Mathematica 5.0.1). Bobby jmyers6761 at aol.com (JMyers6761) wrote in message news:<cb645s$khh$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Why is this? > > A = {3, 5}; B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}; > > Intersection[B, A] == Sort[A] > True > > but > > SublistQ[B_List, A_List] := Intersection[B, A] == Sort[A]; > > SublistQ[B, A] > False > > Al Myers