[Haskell] How to substract a list?

[Arjun Guha]

Try this:

 > remove theList toRemove = filter (\x -> not (elem x toRemove)) theList

-Arjun

On Mar 27, 2005, at 18:28, Bright Sun wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Tks, this is not what I wanted.
>
> I want remove pairs list,
>
>  [(5,1),(4,1),(3,1),(2,1),(1,1)] remove [(2,1),(1,1)]
>  [(5,1),(4,1),(3,1)]
>
> so pairs [(2,1),(1,1)] removed.
>
> Tks.
>
> --- Pierre Barbier de Reuille
>  <pierre.barbier at cirad.fr> wrote:
>  > One answer is the infix operator (\\) defined in the
>  > List module (or in
> > Data.List ...)
>  >
> > But it's in ont of the "set" operations. For example
>  > try :
>  >
> > [1..10] \\ [3..6]
>  > [1,2,7,8,9,10]
>  >
> > But also :
>  >
> > ([1..10]++[1..10]) \\ [3..6]
>  > [1,2,7,8,9,10,1,2,7,8,9,10]
> >
> > So _all_ the elements with values in [3..6] where
>  > removed !!
>  > If that's what you want ! Perfect ... if not : what
>  > do you want exactly
> > ? List substraction is not uniq.
>  >
> > Pierre
>  >
> > Bright Sun a écrit :
>  > > In Haskell, ++ can spends second list argument
>  > onto
>  > > the end of first list argument.  How to substract
>  > the
>  > > second list from the first list?
>  > >
> > > For example,
> > > [(5,1),(4,1),(3,1),(2,1),(1,1)]
> > > substract
>  > > [(2,1),(1,1)]
> > > I want to get result list:
>  > > [(5,1),(4,1),(3,1)]
> > >
> > > Tks. 
> > >
> > >
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