how to compare 2 very large textfiles

[Matthias Rebbe]

Hi Michael,

thanks. I just had the typo in my e-mail. The script in the stack is correct.

I tried now Pete´s  solution with an array. This is much faster.

Regards,

Matthias

Am 06.10.2011 um 21:15 schrieb Michael Kann:

> Matthias,
> 
> I noticed a typo in the second loop:
> 
> repeat for each line i in tTextB
> if i is not among the lines of tTextA then put i &retrurn after tMissingInA TYPO RETRURN
> end repeat
> 
> This probably isn't the actual script or anyway it wouldn't work even after ten minutes. Perhaps there is a type in the script that you used?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 10/5/11, Matthias Rebbe <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
> 
> From: Matthias Rebbe <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de>
> Subject: how to compare 2 very large textfiles
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 5:00 PM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i need to compare two very large text files with about 5000 - 7000 lines each with a lines size of up to 256 chars.
> 
> I need to find out if there are lines missing in either file a or file b.
> 
> What is the best way to do this with good speed?
> 
> I tried to check each line in file a and if the line is in file b.
> And after that, i check for each line in file b and try to find out
> if the line is in file a.
> 
> With large files it takes about 10 to 15 minutes to do the complete check.
> 
> My script looks like this
> 
> repeat for each line i in tTextA
> if i is not among the lines of tTextB then put i &return after tMissingInB
> end repeat
> 
> repeat for each line i in tTextB
> if i is not among the lines of tTextA then put i &retrurn after tMissingInA
> end repeat
> 
> Is there a better (faster) way?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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