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#### Procedure
       SpiceBoolean set_c (  SpiceCell        * a,
                             ConstSpiceChar   * op,
                             SpiceCell        * b   )
#### Abstract
       Given a relational operator, compare two sets of any data type.
#### Required_Reading
       CELLS, SETS
#### Keywords
       CELLS, SETS
#### Brief_I/O
       VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION
       --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
       a          I   First set.
       op         I   Comparison operator.
       b          I   Second set.

       The function returns the result of the comparison: a (op) b.
#### Detailed_Input
       a           is a CSPICE set.  a must be declared as a character,
                   double precision, or integer SpiceCell.

       op          is a comparison operator, indicating the way in
                   which the input sets are to be compared. op may
                   be any of the following:

                      Operator             Meaning
                      --------  -------------------------------------
                        "="     a = b is true if a and b are equal
                                (contain the same elements).

                        "<>"    a <> b is true if a and b are not
                                equal.

                        "<="    a <= b is true if a is a subset of b.

                        "<"     a < b is true if a is a proper subset
                                of b.

                        ">="    a >= b is true if b is a subset of a.

                        ">"     a > b is true if b is a proper subset
                                of a.

                        "&"     a & b is true if a and b have one or more
                                elements in common (the intersection of
                                the two sets in non-empty.)

                        "~"     a ~ b is true if a and b are disjoint
                                sets.

                   When comparing elements of character sets, this routine
                   ignores trailing blanks.

       b           is a CSPICE set of the same data type as a.
#### Detailed_Output
       The function returns the result of the comparison: a (op) b.
#### Parameters
       None.
#### Exceptions
       1)  If the set relational operator is not recognized, the error
           SPICE(INVALIDOPERATION) is signaled.

       2) The error SPICE(EMPTYSTRING) is signaled if the input operator
          string does not contain at least one character, since this
          input string cannot be converted to a Fortran-style string
          in this case.

       3) The error SPICE(NULLPOINTER) is signalled if the input operator
          string pointer is null.

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

       5) If either of the input set arguments may be unordered or contain
          duplicates, the error SPICE(NOTASET) is signaled.
#### Files
       None.
#### Particulars
       None.
#### Examples
       1) In the following code fragment, set_c is used to repeat an operation
          for as long as the integer set finished remains a proper
          subset of the integer set planned.

             #include "SpiceUsr.h"
                   .
                   .
                   .
             while (  set_c( &finished, "<", &planned )  )
             {
                   .
                   .
                   .
             }

       2) In the following example, let the integer sets a, b, and c
          contain the elements listed below. Let e be an empty integer
          set.

             a        b        c
            ---      ---      ---
             1        1        1
             2        3        3
             3
             4

       Then all of the following expressions are SPICETRUE.

          set_c ( b, "=",  c )      "b is equal to c"
          set_c ( a, "<>", c )      "a is not equal to c"
          set_c ( a, ">",  b )      "a is a proper superset of b"
          set_c ( b, "<=", c )      "b is a subset of c"
          set_c ( c, "<=", b )      "c is a subset of b"
          set_c ( a, "<=", a )      "a is a subset of a"
          set_c ( e, "<=", b )      "e is a subset of b"
          set_c ( e, "<",  b )      "e is a proper subset of b"
          set_c ( e, "<=", e )      "e is a subset of e"
          set_c ( a, "&",  b )      "a has elements in common with b."
          set_c ( b, "&",  c )      "b has elements in common with c."

       And all of the following are SPICEFALSE.

          set_c ( b, "<>", c )      "b is not equal to c"
          set_c ( a, "=",  c )      "a is equal to c"
          set_c ( a, "<",  b )      "a is a proper subset of b"
          set_c ( b, "<",  c )      "b is a proper subset of c"
          set_c ( b, ">=", a )      "b is a superset of a"
          set_c ( a, ">",  a )      "a is a proper superset of a"
          set_c ( e, ">=", a )      "e is a superset of a"
          set_c ( e, "<",  e )      "e is a proper subset of e"
          set_c ( a, "~",  b )      "a and b are disjoint sets."
#### Restrictions
       1) 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)
       H.A. Neilan     (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 1 to 2 in loop used
           to free dynamically allocated arrays.

       -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 08-AUG-2002 (NJB) (CAC) (WLT) (IMU)
#### Index_Entries
       compare sets
#### Link to routine set_c source file set_c.c

    Wed Jun  9 13:05:29 2010