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Old 11-15-2019
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Originally Posted by hustler
I tried implementing this but getting an error that cannot read input file.

Do the files exist? Did you adapt the filenames? You gave this in post #1:



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Originally Posted by hustler
I have two CSV files file1, file2 as below . . .
# 9  
Old 11-16-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:

Code:
awk '
  NR==FNR {                                         # When reading the first file (then NR is equal to FNR)
    A[$1]=$0                                        # Store the first file in array A with key $1
    next
  } 

  FNR==1 {                                          # On the first line of the second file
    split($0,Header)                                # Split the header labels in array "Header"
    $1=$1 OFS "diff columns"                        # Create the first 2 field headers
    for(i=2; i<=NF; i++)
      $i=sprintf("f1_%s,f2_%s,%s_diff",$i, $i, $i)  # Create the rest of the field headers
    print                                           # Print the field headers
  } 

  FNR>1 {                                           # Processing the content of file 2
    diffs=""                                        # Set the differences to ""
    if($1 in A) {                                   # if the key in $1 of file2 also occurs in file1
      split(A[$1], F)                               # Split the corresponding line of file 1 into Fields in array F
      for(i=2; i<=NF; i++) {                        # For field 2 until the last field
        if($i!=F[i])                                # if there is a value difference for that field
          diffs=diffs (diffs?OFS:"") Header[i]      # Add the corresponding header label to the differences
        $i=F[i] OFS $i OFS (F[i]-$i)                # Prepend the value of file1 and append the subtraction of file1 val - file val
      } 
      $1=$1 OFS "\"" diffs "\""                     # When all differences found, append them to field 1
      print                                         # print the result
    }
  }
' FS=', *' OFS=, file1 file2                        # set FS to a comma with spaces, set OFS to a comma and read file 1 and file2

Code:
Key,diff columns,f1_value1,f2_value1,value1_diff,f1_Value2,f2_Value2,Value2_diff,f1_Value3,f2_Value3,Value3_diff,f1_Value4,f2_Value4,Value4_diff,...
A,"Value2,Value3,Value4",50,50,0,100,80,20,50,45,5,40,50,-10,...


Hey Rudic,

Thanks for the help but still I am not getting the desired output. It seems code is just reading file 1.

Along with that I am getting a fatal error.
Code:
{FILENAME=file2.csv FNR=2} FATAL: function 'diffs' not defined

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Old 11-16-2019
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