Many thanks for your help!
Thanks to you guys I manage to solve my problem in an efficient way

All the best

J

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Remko Duursma <remkoduursma@gmail.com>wrote:

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> I don't know why I forgot that you can do this as well :
>
> area.poly(intersect(p1,p2))
>
> ... a bit more straightforward.
>
>
> greetings,
> Remko
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