Question

I am writing a small program to compare two List. If the values are the same, I add them to list dups, if they are different, I add them to distinct. I noticed that some of my values are added and some are not, and after debugging for awhile, I am not certain what the problem is. Can someone shed a little light? Thanks.

        List<int> groupA = new List<int>();
        List<int> groupB = new List<int>();

        List<int> dups = new List<int>();
        List<int> distinct = new List<int>();

        groupA.Add(2);
        groupA.Add(24);
        groupA.Add(5);
        groupA.Add(72);
        groupA.Add(276);
        groupA.Add(42);
        groupA.Add(92);
        groupA.Add(95);
        groupA.Add(266);
        groupA.Add(42);
        groupA.Add(92);


        groupB.Add(5);
        groupB.Add(42);
        groupB.Add(95);

        groupA.Sort();
        groupB.Sort();

        for (int a = 0; a < groupA.Count; a++)
        {
            for (int b = 0; b < groupB.Count; b++)
            {
                groupA[a].CompareTo(groupB[b]);


                if (groupA[a] == groupB[b])
                {
                    dups.Add(groupA[a]);
                    groupA.Remove(groupA[a]);
                    groupB.Remove(groupB[b]);
                }

            }
            distinct.Add(groupA[a]);
        }

Answer 1

I would use the Intersect and Except methods:

dups = groupA.Intersect(groupB).ToList();
distinct = groupA.Except(groupB).ToList();