Re: how to compare two lists without looping? possible?
Re: how to compare two lists without looping? possible?
- Subject: Re: how to compare two lists without looping? possible?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:12:25 -0800
- Thread-topic: how to compare two lists without looping? possible?
On 2/9/06 1:01 PM, "Mark Lively" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Only with a loop
>
> set missing to {}
> repeat with anitem in musthave
> if found does not contain (""&anItem)
> then set missing to missing &(""&anItem)
> end if
> end repeat
Better (aside from not erroring on missing spaces) would be:
set missing to {}
repeat with i from 1 to (count mustHave)
set anItem to item i of my mustHave
if found does not contain {anItem}
then set end of missing to anItem)
end if
end repeat
--
Paul Berkowitz
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