AndroidBites | Union, Intersect, Subtract in Kotlin
small snippets on how you can perform union, intersection & subtraction on list!
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Union, Intersect and Subtract are function present in Kotlin's standard collection api, they all return Set type and preserve the element iteration order of the first array, and since they all are infix they don't need ( , ), . tokens. I have added `List` operations that you would perform to get the similar results for comparison.
They are just small example I will highly recommend for looking up in docs for detailed explanation!, Now then 👁️ on the code 💻👇
Union : [Docs]
Returns a set containing all distinct elements from both of the list.
val listOfItem1:List<Int> = listOf(1,2,3,4)
val listOfItem2:List<Int> = listOf(4,5,6,7)
val resultA:List<Int> = (listOfItem1 + listOfItem2).distinct()
//output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
//vs
val resultB: Set<Int> = listOfItem1 union listOfItem2
//output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
val resultC: Set<Int> = listOfItem2 union listOfItem1
//output: [4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3]
Intersect : [Docs]
Returns a set containing all elements that are contained by both of the list.
val listOfItem1:List<Int> = listOf(1,2,3,4,5)
val listOfItem2:List<Int> = listOf(4,5,6,7)
val resultA:List<Int> = listOfItem1.filter{listOfItem2.contains(it)}
// output: [4, 5]
//vs
val resultB:Set<Int> = listOfItem1 intersect listOfItem2
//output: [4, 5]Subtract : [Docs]
Returns a set containing all elements that are contained by this list and not contained by the other list.
val listOfItem1:List<Int> = listOf(1,2,3,4)
val listOfItem2:List<Int> = listOf(4,5,6,7)
val resultA:List<Int> = listOfItem1.filter{!listOfItem2.contains(it)}
// output : [1,2,3]
//vs
val resultA:Set<Int> = listOfItem1 subtract listOfItem2
// output : [1,2,3]That's all fokes! , these are the basic operations that can be performed on the list and are always handy to know! see ya in next snippet 💻 Happy Hacking!
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