On Jun 3, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Joe Conway wrote:

Peter Fein wrote:
I want to do something like this (pardon my pseudocode):
A=ARRAY[4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
B=ARRAY[5, 6]
is_sliceof(A, B), i.e., there exists a slice of A that equals B.  My
best thought ATM is to convert both to strings and use pattern matching
- any better ideas?

I can't think of a really good way to do that directly in Postgres, but I'd bet (still not sure though) there is a way in R.
  http://www.r-project.org/index.html
If so, you could use PL/R:
  http://www.joeconway.com/plr/

This is probably also easy in perl and python as well.

Sean


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