How to find diff between two string in SQL

Question

I have two strings, I want to get difference between contents of two strings in SQL ??

for example,

Declare @String1 as varchar(100)=\'a,b,c,d,e\';

         


        

Answer 1

Simple Way

declare @string1 varchar(max),@string2 varchar(max)
set @string1='Apple, Orange, Banana'
set @string2='Apple, Orange, Banana, Pinapple, Grapes'

select REPLACE(@String2,@string1,'')

Result

, Pinapple, Grapes