Re: stl way of checking 2 lists for dups/additions/removals

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

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Date:

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:53:38 -0400

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"bg" <bg@bg.com> wrote in message
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If I have two vectors, A and B, both containing a bunch of unsorted
names, with B being a superset of the names in A, what algorithm
would I use to find all the ones that were in B one but not A?

Sort both, then use set_difference. Actually, it's sufficient to sort A,
then scan over B and do binary search in A.

Obviously I can do it myself, but I thought the was an algorithm in
the STL lib somewhere.

No, as far as I can tell, there is no algorithm that would do exactly
what you want in one step. You might be thinking of set_difference, but
it requires that the two sequences be sorted. With unsorted sequences,
you can't do better than O(N^2), so there's little point in a special
algorithm - just run two nested loops. If you want to get fancy, use
find_first_of in a loop.
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