in reply to Comparing CSV files

How is what you need any different from 'diff'?

This smells like homework ...

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Re^2: Comparing CSV files
by pg (Canon) on Oct 15, 2004 at 05:29 UTC
    "How is what you need any different from 'diff'?"

    For example, you have a.csv:

    a,1
b,2

    [download]

    and b.csv:

    b,2
a,1

    [download]

    When you diff, they are differnt, but if you consider them as database tables, they are really the same. That is the difference.

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