[Scilab-users] Removing elements of one vector from another vector

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

Le 16/08/2018 à 16:55, Izabela Wójcik-Grząba a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Is there any simple way to remove from one vector elements which are 
> in another vector. For example:
> a=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]
> b=[1 3 5]
> resulting vector: c=[2 4 6 7 8].
> I wonder if this can be done without a "for" loop.

Yes. For the simplest query:
--> setdiff(a,b)
  ans  =
    2.   4.   6.   7.   8.

If "a" has duplicates and you want to remove b values value-per-value : 
Example:
a = [1 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 ]
b=[1 3 5]
and you expect [2 3 4 5 5 6]
=> things are different

Samuel