multisetdiff

like setdiff, but any repeated elements of A are removed only once for each time they occur in B
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Updated 14 Sep 2009

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setdiff for multisets. multisetdiff(A,B) removes repeated elements of A only once for each time they occur in B.

Example:
multisetdiff([1,1,2,2],[1,1,2]) % returns 2

To work with cell arrays of strings or using the rows feature this version requires LEXCMP (see below). The current version does not work for non-string cell arrays (unless you have an implementation of SORT for cell arrays). Non-cell arrays can in principle be any objects for which SORT, SIGN, MINUS and comparison operations are defined.

See the help for more details.

Cite As

Ben Petschel (2024). multisetdiff (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25267-multisetdiff), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2009a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

added support for inf/nan values

1.0.0.0