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      <Title>Get Missing Items from 2 Arrays</Title>
      <Shortcut>GetMissingItemsfrom2Arrays</Shortcut>
      <Description>Get Missing Items from 2 Arrays [C#]</Description>
      <Author>Josh Crosby</Author>
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      <Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[
		public string[] GetMissingItems(string[] allItems, string[] someItems)
		{
			ArrayList missingItems = new ArrayList();
			for (int i=0; i<allItems.Length; i++)
			{
				bool match = false;
				if ( allItems[i].Trim().Length > 0 ) //filter out empty strings
				{
					for (int j=0; j<someItems.Length; j++)
					{
						if ( someItems[j].Trim().Equals(allItems[i].Trim()) )
						{
							match = true;
						}
					}
					if (!match)
					{
						missingItems.Add(allItems[i]);
					}
				}
			}
			string[] aMissingItems = new string[missingItems.Count];
			missingItems.CopyTo(aMissingItems);

			return aMissingItems;
		}]]></Code>
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