Adding/merging cursors

[Erik Mueller-Harder]

Hi, Jon --

On Nov 18, 2004, at 14:15, jda wrote:

> in V2 what would be the best way of merging records in two cursors 
> (e.g. AND or OR). As I recall you can't take two existing cursors and 
> AND or OR them, but you mentioned a long time ago thatin V2 there 
> would be another, easy way to do this.
>
> What I'm thinking of is taking two cursors, each of which has all the 
> publications by one author, and ANDing them to see on which works they 
> were co-authors (or ORing them to see the total number of works on 
> which either was an author).

I'm not sure about cursors, but have you looked at the wealth of 
methods available with VSets?  Given two sets, you can get differences, 
intersections, unions, etc.

-- Erik