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I've been battling with this for HOURS and I am completely stuck.

I'm randomly generating numbers and finding their prime factors. For example...

Prime Factors of 420: 2, 2, 3, 5, 7
Prime Factors of 690: 2, 3, 5, 23

I want to highlight the matching pairs and "uncommon" factors separately as I list them out. So, in this case I would want something like...

Prime Factors of 420: 2, 2, 3, 5, 7
Prime Factors of 690: 2, 3, 5, 23

Then the other 2 and the 7 from 420, and the 23 from 690 would be highlighted in red (for example).

I already have the lists of prime factors in arrays ($factor_list_1_old and $factor_list_2_old respectively). I also have the list of common factors in an array ($commons) and a list of the uncommon factors in an array ($uncommons).

I've tried many ways of doing this and nothing seems to work for all scenarios. I can get this scenario to work, but then it fails for something like 420 and 780.

Any ideas?

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My function

$array1 = array(2, 2, 3, 5, 7);
$array2 = array(2, 3, 5, 23);

function highlightFactors($factors, $other_factors)
    {
    $result = array();
    foreach ($factors as $factor)
        {
        if (($found_key = array_search($factor, $other_factors)) === false)
            {
            $result[] = array($factor, 'normal');
            }
        else
            {
            $result[] = array($factor, 'bold');
            unset($other_factors[$found_key]);
            }
        }
    return $result;
    }

echo json_encode(highlightFactors($array1, $array2));
// [[2,"bold"],[2,"normal"],[3,"bold"],[5,"bold"],[7,"normal"]]
echo json_encode(highlightFactors($array2, $array1));
// [[2,"bold"],[3,"bold"],[5,"bold"],[23,"normal"]]
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I keep getting errors from you code in the form of Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in...
@gtilflm, your php version is lower than 5.4. Answer updated.
I had to do array(...) on the first two lines as well. It seems we may have a winner here... trying to implement it now.
@gtilflm, sure array()... do not hurry
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Write code something like this :

   $first = array( 2, 3, 5, 7);
    $second = array(2, 3, 5, 23);
    $prime = "Prime Factors of 420:";
    $scndprim = "Prime Factors of 690:";
    foreach ($first as $key => $value) {
       if(in_array($value, $second))
       {
        $prime .="<b>".$value."</b>,";
        $array_common[] = $value;
       }else{
        $prime .=$value.",";
        $array_uncommon[] = $value;       
       }
       // ========= for second array 
       if(in_array($second[$key], $first))
       {

        $scndprim .="<b>".$second[$key]."</b>,";

       }else{

        $scndprim .=$second[$key].",";
        $array_uncommon[] = $second[$key];
       }
    }
        echo "<pre />";
         print_r(trim($prime,','));  
         print_r(trim($scndprim,',')); 
         //-- Common and uncommon arrays 
         echo " <br>common elements are ";
          print_r(join(",",$array_common));
           echo " <br>uncommon elements are ";
         print_r(join(",",$array_uncommon));
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I need the uncommon two listed. This doesn't do that.
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I found a way, but i think it is not the most efficient way, there will be more efficient answers.

<?php
$factor_list_1_old = array(2, 2, 3, 5, 7);
$factor_list_2_old = array(2, 3, 5, 23);
$commons = array();
$uncommons = array();

foreach($factor_list_1_old as $key => $value){
    if(in_array($value, $factor_list_2_old)){
        array_push($commons, $value);
    }else{
        array_push($uncommons, $value);
    }
}

foreach($factor_list_2_old as $key => $value){
    if(in_array($value, $factor_list_1_old)){
        array_push($commons, $value);
    }else{
        array_push($uncommons, $value);
    }
}

var_dump(array_unique($uncommons));
var_dump(array_unique($commons));
?>
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I need the uncommon two listed. This doesn't do that.
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$prime_420 = array(
2,
3,
5,
7
);
$prime_690 = array(
    2,
    3,
    5,
23
);

$d1 = array_diff($prime_420, $prime_690);
$d2 = array_diff($prime_690, $prime_420);    
$uncommon = array_merge($d1, $d2);
$common = array_intersect($prime_420, $prime_690);

echo "Primes of 420 : ";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($prime_420); $i++) {
    if (in_array($prime_420[$i], $uncommon)) {
        echo "<font color='#ff0000'>" . $prime_420[$i] . "</font>,";
    } else {
        echo $prime_420[$i] . ",";
    }
}
echo "<br />";
echo "Primes of 690 : ";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($prime_690); $i++) {
    if (in_array($prime_690[$i], $uncommon)) {
        echo "<font color='#ff0000'>" . $prime_690[$i] . "</font>,";
    } else {
        echo $prime_690[$i] . ",";
    }
}
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The uncommon "2" from 420 is not in your list.
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$factor_list_1_old = array(2 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 7);
$factor_list_2_old = array(2 , 2,  3 ,  5 ,  13);

foreach ($factor_list_1_old as $key => $value) {
   if(in_array($value, $factor_list_2_old))
   {
        $firstList .= "<b>".$value."</b>,";
        $key2 = array_search($value, $factor_list_2_old);
        $commonArray[] = $value;
   }else{
        $firstList .= "<span style='color:red'>".$value."</span>,";
        $uncommonArray1[] = $value;
   }
    print_r($factor_list_1_old);
   if(in_array($factor_list_2_old[$key], $factor_list_1_old))
   {
        $secondList .="<b>".$factor_list_2_old[$key]."</b>,";
        //unset($factor_list_2_old[$key]);
   }else{
        $secondList .= "<span style='color:red'>".$factor_list_2_old[$key]."</span>,";
        $uncommonArray2[] = $factor_list_2_old[$key];
   }
   unset($factor_list_1_old[$key]);
   unset($factor_list_2_old[$key2]);
}




     echo "Prime Factors of 420 are ".$firstList."<br />";
     echo "Prime Factors of 780 are ".$secondList."<br />";
     echo "Common Factors of 420 and 780 are ".implode(',',$commonArray)."<br />";
     echo "Un-Common Factors of 420 are ".implode(',',$uncommonArray1)."<br />";
     echo "Un-Common Factors of 780 are ".implode(',',$uncommonArray2);

If

$factor_list_1_old = array(2 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 7);
$factor_list_2_old = array(2 , 2,  3 ,  5 ,  13);

output

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If

$factor_list_1_old = array(2 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 7);
$factor_list_2_old = array(2 ,  3 ,  5 ,  13);

output

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Doesn't work for 420 and 780. The uncommon "2" from 420 is not in your list.

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