Remove fixed number of groups from an array of groups

[anirban300]

Hello Team,

I am trying to remove a fixed number of groups stored in a property from a variable containing all the groups but I am not able to do it. Below is a similar code snippet where from the variable 'allgroups', I want to remove groups the groups stored in 'exgroups'. The 'gs.print' api is showing all the groups. Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Code:

var allgroups = [];
allgroups = '44497c651b454110270a87b1f54bcbf5,e60cc5d9872989d4602d33b40cbb35ba,c556ead61bf45514443387fee54bcbae,c819871087dfb110e3bf98ebbbbb35af,c8262ed61bf45514443387fee54bcbf9';
var exgroups = [];
exgroups = '44497c651b454110270a87b1f54bcbf5,c556ead61bf45514443387fee54bcbae,c8262ed61bf45514443387fee54bcbf9';

for (var i = allgroups.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
for (var j = 0; j < exgroups.length; j++) {
if (allgroups[i] === exgroups[j]) {
allgroups.splice(i, 1);

}
}

}

gs.print(allgroups);

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

Hi @anirban300 ,

Please use below code -

var array1 = ['Software', 'Hardware', 'Service Catalog'];
var array2 = ['Technology', 'Governance', 'Hardware', 'HR', 'Service Desk', 'Service Catalog', 'Software'];

var newArray2 = [];
for (var i = 0; i < array2.length; i++) {
    var element = array2[i];
    if (array1.indexOf(element) === -1) {
        newArray2.push(element);
    }
}
array2 = newArray2;
gs.info(array2);

Or

var arrayUtil = new ArrayUtil();

var array1 = ['Software', 'Hardware', 'Service Catalog'];

var array2 = ['Technology', 'Governance', 'Hardware', 'HR', 'Service Desk', 'Service Catalog', 'Software'];

var newArray2 = [];

array2 = newArray2;

var n = arrayUtil.diff(array1, array2);

gs.info(n);