Comments on: Comparing 2 files .CSV and getting the missing data using AS400. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/comparing-2-files-csv-and-getting-the-missing-data-using-as400/ Thu, 23 May 2013 01:41:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/comparing-2-files-csv-and-getting-the-missing-data-using-as400/#comment-72139 tomliotta Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:18:01 +0000 #comment-72139 Do you want to compare the .CSV files or the data in the files? For example, a numeric column might be 003.010 or it might be 3.01 — leading and trailing zeros make the file different even though the values are different. If you’re going to report differences back in Excel format, I’d expect that you’d want to compare the data while ignoring file differences.

Therefore, you might want to import the .CSV files into a database format. Then compare the resulting files. Differences should be reported in a XML format since Excel handles XML easily enough and it’s probably the easiest data format you can output to.

Tom

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