Implement the script you planned out two weeks ago.
- Open two data files
- Reads the files and
- Merges the data into a single output file
- Removes duplicate data
- The output file needs to be sorted by the data key
Some notes: - We'll assume that every line in the input files is one data record
- The two files can have the same format
- To detect duplicates and to sort the data, each record has to be identified somehow:
- You can compare the entire data record, or
- You can extract a "key" value from the data, i.e. one field in the data is used to compare and sort
- A "field" in the data can be a range of columns, or one item in a tab or comma delimited file
Create your own input files; you will submit them along with the script. Two sample files are attached - you can use these for testing. The sample files show curriculum actions; the files are comma-delimited. The third field is the key in this case. |
 Updating... Hans Kruse, Sep 17, 2018, 5:16 AM Hans Kruse, Sep 17, 2018, 5:16 AM
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