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Looking for some perl magic.
Given an arbitrarily long list of numbers that SHOULD be consecutive, is there a simple method of finding any missing numbers? For instance, given ( 41888, 41889, 41890, 41892, 41895 ), i'd like to determine that 41891, 41893 and 41894 are missing? I've considered populating an array, indexed by my list, then looking for missing indexes, but I don't care for changing the start index of my arrays, and with the numbers I'm using, I'd have a LOT of empty indexes before I get to my first data. I've also considered a simple loop that compares x to x+1, and steps x thru the list, but that seems kind of clunky to me. I'm hoping for some perl elegance. Morlane In reply to Finding missing numbers in a list by Morlane
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