Re^2: Comparing strings (exact matches) in LARGE numbers FAST

After sorting each file, you can just use the unix "join" command.

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Re^3: Comparing strings (exact matches) in LARGE numbers FAST by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 29, 2008 at 11:37 UTC
Ah. Good point. However usually when I use this technique, I'm doing a little more logic so I can't use that. (And I'm usually dealing with a dataset that didn't fit in the database I was using, so I can't use that approach either.)	[reply]