Procedure

   void union_c (  SpiceCell   * a,
                   SpiceCell   * b,
                   SpiceCell   * c  ) 

Abstract

 
   Compute the union of two sets of any data type to form a third set.
 

Required_Reading

 
   SETS 
 

Keywords

 
   CELLS, SETS 
 

Brief_I/O

   VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION 
   --------  ---  -------------------------------------------------- 
   a          I   First input set. 
   b          I   Second input set. 
   c          O   Union of a and b. 
 

Detailed_Input

 
   a           is a CSPICE set.  a must be declared as a SpiceCell 
               of data type character, double precision, or integer.

   b           is a CSPICE set, distinct from a.  b must have the 
               same data type as a.
 

Detailed_Output

 
   c           is a CSPICE set, distinct from sets a and b, which 
               contains the union of a and b (that is, all of 
               the elements which are in a or b or both).  c must 
               have the same data type as a and b.

               When comparing elements of character sets, this routine
               ignores trailing blanks.  Trailing blanks will be 
               trimmed from the members of the output set c.

Parameters

 
   None. 
 

Exceptions

   1) If the input set arguments don't have identical data types,
      the error SPICE(TYPEMISMATCH) is signaled.

   2) If the union of the two sets contains more elements than can be
      contained in the output set, the error SPICE(SETEXCESS) is signaled. 

   3) If the set arguments have character type and the length of the 
      elements of the output set is less than the maximum of the 
      lengths of the elements of the input sets, the error 
      SPICE(ELEMENTSTOOSHORT) is signaled. 

   4) If either of the input arguments may be unordered or contain 
      duplicates, the error SPICE(NOTASET) is signaled.
 

Files

 
   None. 

Particulars

   This is a generic CSPICE set routine; it operates on sets of any
   supported data type.
 
   The union of two sets contains every element which is 
   in the first set, or in the second set, or in both sets. 

      {a,b}      union  {c,d}     =  {a,b,c,d} 
      {a,b,c}           {b,c,d}      {a,b,c,d} 
      {a,b,c,d}         {}           {a,b,c,d} 
      {}                {a,b,c,d}    {a,b,c,d} 
      {}                {}           {} 
 

Examples

 
   1) The following code fragment places the union of the character sets
      planets and asteroids into the character set result.


         #include "SpiceUsr.h"
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Declare the sets with string length NAMLEN and with maximum
         number of elements MAXSIZ.
         ./
         SPICECHAR_CELL ( planets,   MAXSIZ, NAMLEN );
         SPICECHAR_CELL ( asteroids, MAXSIZ, NAMLEN );
         SPICECHAR_CELL ( result,    MAXSIZ, NAMLEN );
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Compute the union.
         ./
         union_c ( &planets, &asteroids, &result );


   2) Repeat example #1, this time using integer sets containing
      ID codes of the bodies of interest.


         #include "SpiceUsr.h"
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Declare the sets with maximum number of elements MAXSIZ.
         ./
         SPICEINT_CELL ( planets,   MAXSIZ );
         SPICEINT_CELL ( asteroids, MAXSIZ );
         SPICEINT_CELL ( result,    MAXSIZ );
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Compute the union.
         ./
         union_c ( &planets, &asteroids, &result );
 

   3) Construct a set containing the periapse and apoapse TDB epochs
      of an orbiter, given two separate sets containing the epochs of
      those events.


         #include "SpiceUsr.h"
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Declare the sets with maximum number of elements MAXSIZ.
         ./
         SPICEDOUBLE_CELL ( periapse,   MAXSIZ );
         SPICEDOUBLE_CELL ( apoapse,    MAXSIZ );
         SPICEDOUBLE_CELL ( result,     MAXSIZ );
                .
                .
                .
         /.
         Compute the union.
         ./
         union_c ( &periapse, &apoapse, &result );

Restrictions

 
   1) The output set must be distinct from both of the input sets. 
      For example, the following calls are invalid. 

         union_c  ( &current,  &new,      &current );
         union_c  ( &new,      &current,  &current );

      In each of the examples above, whether or not the subroutine 
      signals an error, the results will almost certainly be wrong. 
      Nearly the same effect can be achieved, however, by placing the 
      result into a temporary set, which is immediately copied back 
      into one of the input sets, as shown below. 

         union_c  ( &current,  &new,  &temp );
         copy_c   ( &temp,     &new         );

 
   2) String comparisons performed by this routine are Fortran-style:
      trailing blanks in the input sets are ignored. This gives
      consistent behavior with CSPICE code generated by the f2c
      translator, as well as with the Fortran SPICE Toolkit.

      Note that this behavior is not identical to that of the ANSI
      C library functions strcmp and strncmp.

Literature_References

 
   None. 
 

Author_and_Institution

 
   N.J. Bachman    (JPL) 
   C.A. Curzon     (JPL) 
   W.L. Taber      (JPL) 
   I.M. Underwood  (JPL) 
 

Version

 
   -CSPICE Version 1.1.0, 15-FEB-2005 (NJB)

       Bug fix:  loop bound changed from 2 to 3 in loop used
       to free dynamically allocated arrays.

   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 08-AUG-2002 (NJB) (CAC) (WLT) (IMU)

Index_Entries

 
   union of two sets 
 

Link to routine union_c source file union_c.c