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# PetscSectionExtractDofsFromArray

Extracts elements of an array corresponding to DOFs of specified points.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscsection.h"
    PetscErrorCode PetscSectionExtractDofsFromArray(PetscSection origSection, MPI_Datatype dataType, const void *origArray, IS points, PetscSection *newSection, void *newArray[])

Not collective

### Input Parameters

| origSection | - the PetscSection describing the layout of the array
| dataType | - MPI_Datatype describing the data type of the array (currently only MPIU_INT, MPIU_SCALAR, MPIU_REAL)
| origArray | - the array; its size must be equal to the storage size of origSection
| points | - IS with points to extract; its indices must lie in the chart of origSection

### Output Parameters

| newSection | - the new PetscSection desribing the layout of the new array (with points renumbered 0,1,... but preserving numbers of DOFs)
| newArray | - the array of the extracted DOFs; its size is the storage size of newSection

### See Also

PetscSectionGetChart(), PetscSectionGetDof(), PetscSectionGetStorageSize(), PetscSectionCreate()

### Level

developer

### Location

src/vec/is/section/interface/section.c
Index of all PetscSection routines
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