What is the Fastest Way to Match One Column With Another Column

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Hi All

Lets say I have an excel data that contains

Column 1 | Column 2
A | A
B | B
C | C
D | D
E | F
G | G
H | I

Column 1 and Column 2 supposed to match on each row ( A supposed to match with A, etc) so therefore this excel suppose to return that there are discrepancies on row E and H.

What is the fastest way to detect if there is discrepancy on this excel?

I prefer not to use for each row as I think that repeated loop on a lot of lines may result in a lot of processing time.

Thanks in advance

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Hi,

How about the following steps?

1.Read the table as DataTable using Read Range activity
2.Use following expression (LINQ).

arrResult = dt.AsEnumerable.Where(Function(r) r("Column 1").toString<>r("Column 2").toString).Select(Function(r) r("Column 1").toString).toArray

3.Finally, you can get discrepancy values in Columns 1 as {“E”,“H”} in arrResult.

If you want to just check whether there is discrepancy, the following will work in if condition.

dt.AsEnumerable.Where(Function(r) r("Column 1").toString<>r("Column 2").toString).Any

Regards,

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actually as you are talking about processing time, a simple loop comparing the columns is the fastest of anything people keeps suggesting in our forum…

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Thanks. it works like a charm

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Is it true? because im afraid if i have to compare like hundreds or thousands of line, repeatedly going to each loop will take some time

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Yes it is and i have over 20 years development experience to back me up on that :wink:

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