How to do set subtraction

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Mohammad Golam Kibria
Mohammad Golam Kibria on 12 Dec 2012
I have two array a=[1,2,3] and b=[2,3,4,5]
I need a array c=b\a. Here \ is the set subtract operation. result is as follows:
i.e.c=[4,5]
How to do that in matlab. Thanks in advance.

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 12 Dec 2012
Edited: Matt Fig on 12 Dec 2012
a = 1:3;
b = 2:5;
c = setdiff(b,a)

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Vishal Rane
Vishal Rane on 12 Dec 2012
Use
c = b(~ismember(b,a))
although there might be more simpler way to do this.

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