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Determining the integers / lines between two given integers / lines

I have a large body of text that I am working with in r and I have identified the line numbers containing key text. I have these stored as two different objects: location1 and location2

I want to now create a list of the lines that fall between location1 and location2.

location1  int [1:393] 4 21 38 57 75 93 110 127 144 166 ...
location2  int [1:393] 6 23 41 59 77 95 112 129 147 168 ...

So I am looking for output that looks like:

5 22 39 40 58 76 111 128 145 146 167

This is more complicated than just location1 + 1 because there are instances where there are multiple lines between location1 and location2. For example, when location1 is 38 and location2 is 41 I would expect to get 39 and 40 in the output.

How do I do this?

Thanks!

Solution 
  •  unlist(Map(seq, location1 + 1, location2 - 1))
 [1]   5  22  39  40  58  76  94 111 128 145 146 167