This is a more detailed description of the problem,

I have written the following lines of code to read the files

data1=("c:\\mydata\\file1.txt")
data2=("c:\\mydata\\file2.txt")

file 1 has fields like patientID, Name which are common in file2, however
not all fields are common

i would like to create file3.txt with the merged data fields,

i hope this is clear, and i thank everyone, who has responded so far.


Alex Jameson
Student,
University of Colorado

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