Finding what is common to two arrays

Question

Is there a way to compare two arrays and show what is common to both of them?

array1 = ["pig", "dog", "cat"] array2 = ["dog", "cat", "pig", "horse"] 

What do I type to show that ["pig", "dog", "cat"] are common between these two arrays?

Answer 1

You can intersect the arrays using &:

array1 & array2 

This will return ["pig", "dog", "cat"].

Answer 2

Set Intersection. Returns a new array containing elements common to the two arrays, with no duplicates, like:

["pig", "dog", "bird"] & ["dog", "cat", "pig", "horse", "horse"] # => ["pig", "dog"] 

You can also read a blog post about Array coherences