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java comparing-two-csv-files-in-java

Hungry Herring answered on July 16, 2020 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 4/10

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import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/* file1 - file2 = file3*/
public class CompareCSV {
public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
{
    String path="D:\\csv\\";
    String file1="file1.csv";
    String file2="file2.csv";
    String file3="p3lang.csv";
    ArrayList al1=new ArrayList();
    ArrayList al2=new ArrayList();
    //ArrayList al3=new ArrayList();

    BufferedReader CSVFile1 = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path+file1));
    String dataRow1 = CSVFile1.readLine();
    while (dataRow1 != null)
    {
        String[] dataArray1 = dataRow1.split(",");
        for (String item1:dataArray1)
        { 
           al1.add(item1);
        }

        dataRow1 = CSVFile1.readLine(); // Read next line of data.
    }

     CSVFile1.close();

    BufferedReader CSVFile2 = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path+file2));
    String dataRow2 = CSVFile2.readLine();
    while (dataRow2 != null)
    {
        String[] dataArray2 = dataRow2.split(",");
        for (String item2:dataArray2)
        { 
           al2.add(item2);

        }
        dataRow2 = CSVFile2.readLine(); // Read next line of data.
    }
     CSVFile2.close();

     for(String bs:al2)
     {
         al1.remove(bs);
     }

     int size=al1.size();
     System.out.println(size);

     try
        {
            FileWriter writer=new FileWriter(path+file3);
            while(size!=0)
            {
                size--;
                writer.append(""+al1.get(size));
                writer.append('\n');
            }
            writer.flush();
            writer.close();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
}}

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Hungry Herring

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//download csv reader maven dependency for this
public class ReadCSV {
    public List<Map<String, String>> read(String filename) throws CsvValidationException, IOException {

        CSVReader csvReader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(filename));

        String[] headerArray = csvReader.readNext();
        String[] lineInArray;

        List<Map<String, String>> listOfMaps = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();

        while ((lineInArray = csvReader.readNext()) != null) {
            HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

            for (int i = 0; i < lineInArray.length; i++) {
                map.put(headerArray[i], lineInArray[i]);
            }

            listOfMaps.add(map);
            //System.out.println(map);
        }

        return listOfMaps;

    }


    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, CsvException {
        
        //select relative path of csv
        
        String filename1 = "test1.csv";
        String filename2 = "test2.csv";
        

        ReadCSV readCSV = new ReadCSV();

        List<Map<String, String>> file1 = readCSV.read(filename1);
        List<Map<String, String>> file2 = readCSV.read(filename2);

        for (int i = 0; i < file1.size(); i++) {

            if (!file1.get(i).equals(file2.get(i))) {
                System.out.println("file1: " + file1.get(i));
                System.out.println("file2: " + file2.get(i));
                System.out.println("---------------------");
            }
        }


    }
}

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