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Thank you for the replay, i edited the posted with the correct output
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Re^5: compare two text file line by line, how to optimise
by poj (Abbot) on Feb 27, 2016 at 13:30 UTC

    So, taking the first line of file 2

    chirac presidential migration

    compare this with each line of file 1 in turn

    chirac prime paris
chirac prime jacques
chirac prime president 
chirac paris france
chirac paris french

    and calculate how many words match. Output the file 1 line if the count is greater than a minimum value. Repeat for each line in file 2.

    For this example, the number of words matching is only 1 ("chirac") in each case so if the minimum is 2 then none of the above lines be would output. Is that the logic ?

    poj
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