github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/language/functions/setsubtract.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "setsubtract - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-collection-setsubtract" 5 description: |- 6 The setsubtract function returns a new set containing the elements 7 from the first set that are not present in the second set 8 --- 9 10 # `setsubtract` Function 11 12 The `setsubtract` function returns a new set containing the elements from the first set that are not present in the second set. In other words, it computes the 13 [relative complement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_(set_theory)#Relative_complement) of the second set. 14 15 ```hcl 16 setsubtract(a, b) 17 ``` 18 19 ## Examples 20 21 ``` 22 > setsubtract(["a", "b", "c"], ["a", "c"]) 23 [ 24 "b", 25 ] 26 ``` 27 28 ### Set Difference (Symmetric Difference) 29 30 ``` 31 > setunion(setsubtract(["a", "b", "c"], ["a", "c", "d"]), setsubtract(["a", "c", "d"], ["a", "b", "c"])) 32 [ 33 "b", 34 "d", 35 ] 36 ``` 37 38 39 ## Related Functions 40 41 * [`setintersection`](./setintersection.html) computes the _intersection_ of multiple sets 42 * [`setproduct`](./setproduct.html) computes the _Cartesian product_ of multiple 43 sets. 44 * [`setunion`](./setunion.html) computes the _union_ of 45 multiple sets.