New to me: subtracting arrays
I was looking at a way to find the difference between two arrays and my friend Ben clued me in to a nice shortcut I wasn’t familiar with:
>> fruits = ['apple', 'bannana', 'grapes']
>> fruits_i_hate = ['banana', 'blueberries']
>> fruits_i_like = fruits - fruits_i_hate
=> ['apple', 'grapes']
You can even string them together:
>> fruits - fruits_i_hate - fruits_that_are_bad_for_me
(or something like that).
Pretty cool.
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