From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-05-12T04:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: how to remove dups from 2 lists?

> On May 10, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Mike Steiner wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to write some code that removes all elements from 2 lists that
>> are in both lists. However, I don't want any duplicates from each list
>> deleted also (which is what the array "-" operator does). The code I have
>> now doesn't handle restarting the current iteration for both loops when a
>> match is found and deleted in both loops. Here's the code:
>>
>> def RemoveDupsFromLists ( list1 , list2 )
>>    list1.each_index do | i |
>>        list2.each_index do | j |
>>            if list1[i] == list2[j]
>>                list1.delete_at ( i )
>>                list2.delete_at ( j )
>>            end
>>        end
>>    end
>>    return [ list1 , list2 ]
>> end
>>
>> What's weird is that doing this is easy in C (my first language), but
>> difficult in Ruby. Everything else I've seen has been MUCH easier in 
>> Ruby.
>>
>> Mike Steiner

Isn't this what you want?

irb(main):001:0> a = %w{a b c d e f g a b c}
=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "a", "b", "c"]
irb(main):002:0> b = %w{e f g h i j k h i j}
=> ["e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "h", "i", "j"]
irb(main):003:0> a - (a & b)
=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "a", "b", "c"]
irb(main):004:0> b - (a & b)
=> ["h", "i", "j", "k", "h", "i", "j"]

Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner