equals

Description

Determine if two objects are the same

Arguments and Return Values

Arguments: Any davinci object

Return Value: 0 or 1

Usage

Syntax: equals(obj1, obj2)

The equals() function checks every piece of obj1 and obj2 to see if the two objects are identical. This works for VALs, STRINGs, TEXTs and Structures.

Equals() returns 1 if the two objects are identical, and 0 if not.

Examples

dv> a      
345x200x10 array of float, bsq format [2,760,000 bytes]

dv> b
345x200x10 array of float, bsq format [2,760,000 bytes]

dv> c
"bob"

dv> equals(a,b)
1

dv> equals(a,c)
0