Android Question How to remove common letters in two string?

[Pravee7094]

Hi all,
How to remove common letters in two strings?

dim str1 as string = "GUNA"
dim str2 as string = "MANI"

Here I have two names in string variable, Here in the both names, 'A' and 'N' letter is common.
so I wanna remove those letter. and print remaining letters.

Any suggestion or help?

Thanks

 

[Peter Meares]

A simple way is to work through one word, letter by letter, and check if the other word contains the letter. Then replace the relevant letter with nothing.
A second way would be to convert each word to a map and count each letter into the map. Then check the two maps against each other.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

Use regex:

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