How to get the difference between two lists?

David Vaughan dvk at dvkconsult.com.au
Mon Apr 4 17:46:52 EDT 2005


On 05/04/2005, at 0:38, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/4/05 1:39 AM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>> Ken (and all the other ingenious people), you have something against 
>>> the
>>> "intersect" command?
>>>
>>> Convert both lists to arrays and intersect them leaving only the
>>> non-common elements.
>>
>> My understanding is the intersect command creates an array with only 
>> common
>> keys. If there was an inverse of the command it would be perfect as 
>> you say.
>
> I added this as an enhancement request to Bugzilla (Bug #2763 if anyone
> wants to vote on it).

I'll vote for it Ken. While I am at it I might vote that I do not 
reverse-read documentation as well ;-)

cheers
David
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software



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