in reply to need help reading through two large files and output matches and non matches

The problem you describe has a high degree of commonality with a problem I was presented with in a university Java Data Structures/Sorting Algorithms class. The algorithm you seek to implement is a variant of an "external merge sort".

I'll leave the details for you to implement.

Good luck on your assignment!


Update: Removed irrelevant statement regarding merging into a single file

Where do you want *them* to go today?
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