Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Friday 31 July 2009 11:25:17 learner learner wrote:
Hi all,
I want to compare two text files line by line and eliminate the
matching/repeated line and store the unmatched/leftout lines into a third
file or overwrite into one of them.
This is not as simple as it seems.
You will probably be better off using diff, or,
if it is a learning exercise, studying its source.
- Hendrik
It is not only "not simple," it's totally underspecified.
Learner:
If this is a homework assignment, you should read the whole assignment,
and see what it says. Without knowing something about the text files, I
couldn't even guess what the real goal is.
For example, if the text files are really text (e.g. a letter to
grandma), then we want a context-sensitive comparison, the kind that
Windiff, RCSDiff, DiffMerge, and others can do.
If the text files are each a list of items, with order and duplication
irrelevant, then your best bet is probably to build a set from each, and
difference the sets.
DaveA
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