I've got two lists - one with is the "comprehensive" list that is
return-delimited, like:

3
5
6
7
11
14
18
21

And another list which is the list I would like to *remove* from the
comprehensive list:

5
6
11
18

Which should give me:

3
7
14
21

I can of course do a repeat loop through the small list and remove those
items from the comprehensive list, but I'm wondering if there's a faster way
to do this. The numbers will always be sorted in ascending numeric order,
but there may be thousands of them, so I'm not looking forward to a repeat
loop.

How about:

split the long list into an array
loop over the short list
delete array elements for each line of the short list
combine the long list
resort the long list

Should be faster than deleting a line in the middle of a long list but I could be wrong.

It's a pity we don't have an inverse of the intersect command.

Cheers

Monte

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