Are you trying to compare them to remove duplicates?

If so you could combine the list and use 
ListRemoveduplicates<http://www.openbd.org/manual/?/function/listremoveduplicates>
  
On Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:36:56 AM UTC-7, Derrick wrote:
>
> Hmmmm,
>
> I am currently working with two lists in an application and had a thought. 
>  May not be an original thought but a thought nonetheless.  :)
>
> Has anyone ever had a need to compare two lists?  For instance lets say 
> you have the following lists and you want to know if any items from List1 
> exists in List2:
>
>
>    - List1:  item1, item2, item3
>    - List2:  item2, item3, item4, item5
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do something like this: 
>  ListCompare(List1,List2,',')?  Possible results:  
>
>    - Returns 1 if any value in List1 is in List2.   
>    - Returns 0 if none of List1's values are in List2 
>
> Thoughts...
>
> As i was typing this a co-worker shared this link with me:  
> http://www.cflib.org/udf/listCompare.  I can easily implement something 
> like this, but the question is would the OpenBD Team be willing to add a 
> flavor of this as a built in List function?
>

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