I want to compare 2 hash sets and take out the differences

Question

I have 2 hash sets like this.

Hash_1 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} Hash_2 = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}

I am using C#

I want to compare those two sets and want to get the output like

Hash_3 = {1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8}

ProgrammingLlama · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-31 05:33:36Z

What you want is: Hash_1 without Hash_2, and Hash_2 without Hash_1, then combined into one set.

So let's start with Hash_1 without Hash_2:

var modified1 = Hash_1.Except(Hash_2);

and then Hash_2 without Hash_1:

var modified2 = Hash_2.Except(Hash_1);

And now let's combine them:

var result = modified1.Concat(modified2);

Or in short:

var result = Hash_1.Except(Hash_2).Concat(Hash_2.Except(Hash_1));

Try it online

halfer · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-08 10:39:15Z

Or you could use SymmetricExceptWith

Modifies the current HashSet<T> object to contain only elements that are present either in that object or in the specified collection, but not both.

var h1 = new HashSet<int>() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; var h2 = new HashSet<int>() { 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }; h1.SymmetricExceptWith(h2); Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", h1));

Output

1,2,3,7,6,8

Internally it just uses

foreach (T item in other) { if (!Remove(item)) { AddIfNotPresent(item); } }

Source Code here

@John yeah never used it before actually, that was my first rodeo

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