On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Jun Shen wrote: > Dear all, > > I understand identical (a,b) will tell me if a and b are exactly the > same or > not. But what if they are different, is there anyway to tell which > element(s) are different? Thanks. You could try: str(a); str(b) David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT