Good day,I could not see the suggested solution by Kyle Bannerjee with
the cat command.  Possibly he sent it to you directly?If you still have
it please forward it to me.ThanksRenate Morgenstern
> Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to reply to my question!  I
> liked the
> simplicity of Kyle Bannerjee's command line suggestion, but stumbled
> over
> how to get the "cat" command to work on my Windows machine and
> couldn't
> figure out how to properly implement GnuWin32, so I went with a
> variation
> of Hannah's solution, using this formula in Excel:
> 
> =IF(COUNTIF($C:$C, $A2)=0, "No", "Match!")
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Kyle Breneman <[log in to unmask]
> om>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have 2 Excel files, each with a column of barcodes.  I am
> > supposed to
> > determine which, if any, of the barcodes in the first file are also
> > present
> > in the second file.  Is writing a short Python program the best way
> > to do
> > this, or is there a more efficient way?  (There are about 300 items
> > in the
> > first file and about 1,000 items in the second file.)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kyle
> > 
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