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setdiff

Set difference of fixed.Interval objects

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Syntax

C = setdiff(A, B)

Description

C = setdiff(A, B) returns a fixed.Interval object containing the values in fixed.Interval object A, but not in B.

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Examples

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Create two fixed.Interval objects. Use the setdiff function to find the values that are in Interval object interval1 but not in interval2. In this example, interval1 contains all values between 0 and 1, but interval2 only contains values from 0 to 0.5, so the output Interval object has an interval from 0.5 to 1.

interval1 = fixed.Interval(0,1);
interval2 = fixed.Interval(0,0.5);
intervaldiff = setdiff(interval1, interval2)
intervaldiff = 
    (0.5000,1]

  1x1 fixed.Interval with properties:

              LeftEnd: 0.5000
             RightEnd: 1
         IsLeftClosed: false
        IsRightClosed: true

You can use the setdiff function to create an interval object based on another interval, while excluding zero.

Create an Interval object that contains zero.

myInterval = fixed.Interval(-1,1);

To create an interval based on the Interval object, myInterval, use the setdiff function. Include the constructor for a degenerate Interval object containing only zero as the second argument.

myInterval_nozero = setdiff(myInterval, {0});
myInterval_nozero = 

    [-1,0)    (0,1]

  1x2 fixed.Interval with properties:

              LeftEnd
             RightEnd
         IsLeftClosed
        IsRightClosed

The output Interval object, myInterval_nozero, contains two intervals, each with an open end point at zero. Therefore, the interval contains all values between -1 and 1, except 0.

Input Arguments

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Input fixed.Interval objects, specified as fixed.Interval objects, or arrays of fixed.Interval objects.

Output Arguments

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Set difference of input fixed.Interval objects, returned as a fixed.Interval object or an array of fixed.Interval objects.

The output Interval object contains all values in first input, A, but not in B.

Version History

Introduced in R2019b

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