Method: Array#-

Defined in:
array.c

#-(other_array) ⇒ Object

Returns a new array containing only those elements of self that are not found in other_array; the order from self is preserved:

[0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1] - [1]             # => [0, 2, 3]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1] - [3, 2, 0, :foo] # => [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
[0, 1, 2] - [:foo]                            # => [0, 1, 2]

Element are compared using method #eql? (as defined in each element of self).

Related: see Methods for Combining.



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# File 'array.c', line 5537

VALUE
rb_ary_diff(VALUE ary1, VALUE ary2)
{
    VALUE ary3;
    VALUE hash;
    long i;

    ary2 = to_ary(ary2);
    if (RARRAY_LEN(ary2) == 0) { return ary_make_shared_copy(ary1); }
    ary3 = rb_ary_new();

    if (RARRAY_LEN(ary1) <= SMALL_ARRAY_LEN || RARRAY_LEN(ary2) <= SMALL_ARRAY_LEN) {
        for (i=0; i<RARRAY_LEN(ary1); i++) {
            VALUE elt = rb_ary_elt(ary1, i);
            if (rb_ary_includes_by_eql(ary2, elt)) continue;
            rb_ary_push(ary3, elt);
        }
        return ary3;
    }

    hash = ary_make_hash(ary2);
    for (i=0; i<RARRAY_LEN(ary1); i++) {
        if (rb_hash_stlike_lookup(hash, RARRAY_AREF(ary1, i), NULL)) continue;
        rb_ary_push(ary3, rb_ary_elt(ary1, i));
    }

    return ary3;
}