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in reply to Finding missing numbers in a list

use List::Util qw[ reduce ]; my @in = ( 41888, 41889, 41890, 41892, 41895 ); my @missing; reduce{ push @missing, $a+1 .. $b-1; $b } @in; print @missing; 41891 41893 41894

If your list is large, then this will be more (memory) efficient:

my @in = ( 41888, 41889, 41890, 41892, 41895 ); my @missing; push @missing, $in[ $_ ] +1 .. $in[ $_+1 ] -1 for 0 .. $#in-1; print @missing; 41891 41893 41894

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