MATLAB提供各種函數集合運算，如集，交集和測試組成員等。

下表顯示了一些常用的設置操作：

函數	描述
intersect(A,B)	Set intersection of two arrays; returns the values common to both A and B. The values returned are in sorted order.
intersect(A,B,'rows')	Treats each row of A and each row of B as single entities and returns the rows common to both A and B. The rows of the returned matrix are in sorted order.
ismember(A,B)	Returns an array the same size as A, containing 1 (true) where the elements of A are found in B. Elsewhere, it returns 0 (false).
ismember(A,B,'rows')	Treats each row of A and each row of B as single entities and returns a vector containing 1 (true) where the rows of matrix A are also rows of B. Elsewhere, it returns 0 (false).
issorted(A)	Returns logical 1 (true) if the elements of A are in sorted order, and logical 0 (false) otherwise. Input A can be a vector or an N-by-1 or 1-by-N cell array of strings. A is considered to be sorted if A and the output of sort(A) are equal.
issorted(A, 'rows')	Returns logical 1 (true) if the rows of two-dimensional matrix A are in sorted order, and logical 0 (false) otherwise. Matrix A is considered to be sorted if A and the output of sortrows(A) are equal.
setdiff(A,B)	Set difference of two arrays; returns the values in A that are not in B. The values in the returned array are in sorted order.
setdiff(A,B,'rows')	Treats each row of A and each row of B as single entities and returns the rows from A that are not in B. The rows of the returned matrix are in sorted order. The 'rows' option does not support cell arrays.
setxor	Set exclusive OR of two arrays
union	Set union of two arrays
unique	Unique values in array

例子

創建一個腳本文件，並鍵入下麵的代碼：

a = [7 23 14 15 9 12 8 24 35]
b = [ 2 5 7 8 14 16 25 35 27]
u = union(a, b)
i = intersect(a, b)
s = setdiff(a, b)

當您運行該文件，它會產生以下結果：

a =
     7    23    14    15     9    12     8    24    35
b =
     2     5     7     8    14    16    25    35    27
u =
  Columns 1 through 11
     2     5     7     8     9    12    14    15    16    23    24
  Columns 12 through 14
    25    27    35
i =
     7     8    14    35
s =
     9    12    15    23    24