SymmetricDifference Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Computes the symmetric difference of this set with another set. The symmetric difference of two sets is all items that appear in either of the sets, but not both. A new set is created with the symmetric difference of the sets and is returned. This set and the other set are unchanged.

Namespace: Wintellect.PowerCollections
Assembly: PowerCollections (in PowerCollections.dll)

Syntax

C#
public OrderedSet<T> SymmetricDifference( OrderedSet<T> otherSet )

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Function SymmetricDifference ( _ otherSet As OrderedSet(Of T) _ ) As OrderedSet(Of T)

Visual C++
public: OrderedSet<T>^ SymmetricDifference ( OrderedSet<T>^ otherSet )

Parameters

otherSet: OrderedSet<(Of <T>)>
Set to symmetric difference with.

Return Value

The symmetric difference of the two sets.

Remarks

The symmetric difference of two sets is computed in time O(M + N log M), where M is the size of the larger set, and N is the size of the smaller set.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
System..::InvalidOperationException	This set and otherSet don't use the same method for comparing items.