Re^2: comparing an ID fom one file to the records in the second file

hi 1nickt,

unless I missed something, I think that this isn't gonna work. When you read the first line of FILEID, you read the whole FILECOMPARE filehandle, and you won't have any data left to read from the second file for the the next lines of the first file. Besides, even if you fixed it to get back to the beginning of the first file, the solution would be quite inefficient, because it would be reading the second file again and again for each input line of the first file. It would also print scores of "no match" to the output, even when there is actually a match.

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Re^3: comparing an ID fom one file to the records in the second file by 1nickt (Canon) on Dec 01, 2017 at 18:58 UTC
Quite likely, I didn't test it, and said "don't copy this" ... was just correcting some errors I saw in the OP. As you know well this is not the right solution to begin with. I'll update my node, thanks. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^4: comparing an ID fom one file to the records in the second file by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 01, 2017 at 19:55 UTC
Yes, 1nickt, I gathered that you tried to fix the syntax, but probably overlooked the fact that the OP's semantic approach (the algorithm) was also wrong.	[reply]