Compare the difference between two list

Question

I\'am trying to check the difference between two List in c#.

Example:

List FirstList = new List         


        

Answer 1

Than for this king of reuqirement you can can make use of Except function.

List<string> newlist =  List1.Except(List2).ToList();

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or you can do this , so the below one create new list three which contains items that are not common in list1 and list2

var common = List1.Intersect(List2);

var list3 = List1.Except(common ).ToList();
list3.AddRange(List2.Except(common ).ToList());

the above one is help full when list1 and list2 has differenct item like

List<string> list1= new List<string>();
List<string> list2 = new List<string>();

The FirstList is filled with the following values:

list1.Add("COM1");
list1.Add("COM2");
list1.Add("COM4");

The SecondList is filled with the following values:

list2 .Add("COM1");
list2 .Add("COM2");
list2 .Add("COM3");

by using above code list3 contains COM4 and COM3.

Answer 2

Try to use Except LINQ extension method, which takes items only from the first list, that are not present in the second. Example is given below:

List<string> ThirdList =  SecondList.Except(FirstList).ToList();

You can print the result using the following code:

Console.WriteLine(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, ThirdList));

Or

Debug.WriteLine(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, ThirdList));

Note: Don't forget to include: using System.Diagnostics;

prints:

COM3

Answer 3

You can use Enumerable.Intersect:

var inBoth = FirstList.Intersect(SecondList);

or to detect strings which are only in one of both lists, Enumerable.Except:

var inFirstOnly = FirstList.Except(SecondList);
var inSecondOnly = SecondList.Except(FirstList);

To get your ThirdList:

List<string> ThirdList = inSecondOnly.ToList();