CSharp - LINQ Except

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Introduction

The Except operator returns a sequence that contains all the elements of a first sequence that do not exist in a second sequence.

An element is determined to be equal to another element using their GetHashCode and Equals methods.

Prototypes 

public static IEnumerable<T> Except<T>(
        this IEnumerable<T> first,
        IEnumerable<T> second);

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException is thrown if any arguments are null.

The following code shows how to use Except operator.

Demo

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
class Program/*from  w  w w.j  av  a  2s. co m*/
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string[] codeNames = {"Python", "Java", "Javascript", "Bash", "C++", "Oracle"};
        
        //  First generate a processed sequence.
        IEnumerable<string> processed = codeNames.Take(4);
        
        IEnumerable<string> exceptions = codeNames.Except(processed);
        foreach (string name in exceptions)
            Console.WriteLine(name);
    }
}

Result