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Niranda Perera commented on ARROW-14946:
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[~jorisvandenbossche] actually my initial use case was to search indices of a
given array of values. Ex:
{code:java}
indices = find_indices(values, [1, 2, 1]) # expected = [0, 5, 1, 2, 0, 5]
{code}
But it looked a like a niche use case.
IINM [~amol-] also mentioned about returning a boolean array matching a given
value, which could in-turn be used for a filter function. In that case, we
could relax this to a scalar kernel as well. Personally, I think that would be
an overkill.
> [C++][Python] An operator for finding indices of a value
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-14946
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14946
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: C++, Python
> Reporter: Niranda Perera
> Priority: Major
>
> As discussed in this mail thread [1], it would be nice to have a search
> operator returning the indices of a Value.
> ex:
> {code:java}
> values = pa.array([1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1])
> indices = find_indices(values, 1) # expected = [0, 5]{code}
> currently there is an option to get the "first index" of a value using
> aggregates.index method. This would be a binary vector kernel IMO.
> This is somewhat similar to `numpy.where` [2] but without a `y` input.
>
> [1] [https://lists.apache.org/thread/o8d4m905fxswcg0qjjx7gj3ql2d582k4]
> [2] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.where.html
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