Difference

Takes the relative difference of two Sets, assigning the difference to a resultant Set.

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The Difference node takes the relative difference of items found in two Sets, assigning the difference to a Resultant Set, with the result containing all items found in Set A but not found in Set B. It's important to note that the relative difference between two Sets is not a commutative operation. Visually, the difference between Set A and Set B looks like the following diagram, where Set A contains all of the items that are being preserved.

For illustrative purposes, let's say that you have two string type Sets, Set A and Set B, both of which are defined below.

Set A = {"Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4", "Item 5"}
Set B = {"Item 4", "Item 5", "Item 6", "Item 7", "Item 8"}

The following table shows you the result, which contains the relative difference between Set A and Set B (symbolically represented as A \ B ).


Set A	Set B	Resultant Set (A \ B)
`Item 1`	`Item 4`	`Item 1`
`Item 2`	`Item 5`	`Item 2`
`Item 3`	`Item 6`	`Item 3`
`Item 4`	`Item 7`
`Item 5`	`Item 8`

Inputs


Pin Location	Name	Description
	(In) Exec	Input execution pin.
	A	Set A is the starting Set.
	B	Set B is the Set of items to remove from Set A.

Outputs


Pin Location	Name	Description
	(Out) Exec	Output execution pin.
	Result	The Set containing all of the items in Set A, which aren't found in Set B.

Example Usage

Footnote

Symbolically, this operation is represented as A \ B = { x | x ∈ A ∧ x ∉ B }, wherein this node is performing a logical AND operation between elements in Set A and elements not in Set B.