Sorry about the vagueness, I tend to do that when I'm new to a task. To answer your questions:


1. both files are comma delimited files.
2. file1 fields= id,name,type
file1 values= 1,yeates,scarborough
2,wayman,freedom
3,xena,princess

file2 fields= name,ref#,organization,type,box#
file2 values= wayman,34,meade,B1,4
wayman,56,gs,B2,7
wayman,78,nine,B3,8
yeates,52,sample,A1,9
xena,63,tv,C1,7
xena,22,media,C2,2

3. Right now the only code I have is reading the files into a string. That's all I've got because I want to figure out the best way to do this. File1 will be very small..100k. File2 will be larger than 40megs.

Does this clarify some vagueness?

Thanks.

In reply to Re: Re: comparing array values or? by Anonymous Monk
in thread comparing array values or? by Anonymous Monk

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