Array difference

[Antinomy]

If I have two arrays

Dim $aArrayA[10] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 37, 74, 115]

Dim $aArrayB[10] = [10, 12, 3, 74, 45, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15]

I want to obtain the difference between them.

eg obtain the output

$aDifference = [1, 2, 4, 5, 37, 115]

I guess that I can do it with nested loops, but is there a snazzy way ie a function that returns this.

Thanks,

Antionmy

PS. I am this is for my first AutoIt script, so please forgive me if this has been answered already, but I have not been able to find it via search.

[cageman]

loops are the only way i know of.

func substract2arrays($aArrayA,$aArrayB)
If(ubound($aArrayA)=ubound($aArrayB) AND IsArray($aArrayA) AND IsArray($aArrayB) Then

for i=0 to ubound($aArrayA) step 1
$aDifference[i]=$aArrayA[i]-$aArrayB[i]
Next
Else 
Return @error
Endif
Return $aDifference
Endfunc

this should be the way to go

[PsaltyDS]

If I have two arrays

Dim $aArrayA[10] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 37, 74, 115]

Dim $aArrayB[10] = [10, 12, 3, 74, 45, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15]

I want to obtain the difference between them.

eg obtain the output

$aDifference = [1, 2, 4, 5, 37, 115]

I guess that I can do it with nested loops, but is there a snazzy way ie a function that returns this.

Thanks,

Antionmy

PS. I am this is for my first AutoIt script, so please forgive me if this has been answered already, but I have not been able to find it via search.

This requires two nested loops. You want to loop through each item in A with the outer loop, testing it against each item in B with the inner loop. If there is a match, delete the item from A. Note that the loop move backwards through A to avoid subscript out of range errors:

#include <Array.au3>

Global $aArrayA[10] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 37, 74, 115]
Global $aArrayB[10] = [10, 12, 3, 74, 45, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15]

For $a = UBound($aArrayA) - 1 To 0 Step -1
    For $b = 0 To UBound($aArrayB) - 1
        If $aArrayA[$a] = $aArrayB[$b] Then
            _ArrayDelete($aArrayA, $a)
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
Next

_ArrayDisplay($aArrayA, "Result")