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Posted: **Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:49 pm**

Hi,
I have two input file layout and record structure are given below

File :1 :
Name (1-20) Roll Number(21-40) Subject(41-60) Qualifiaction(61-80)
Sachin Bhavsar 9867890899999 Mathmatics Bachlor
Satish Singh 9876909090909 Hystory Graduate
Sachin Shukla 9898989898989 Physics Masters
Sneha Pawar 89898989898 HINDI Senior secondry
Shweta Daware 78787878787 English High school

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File 2:
Name (1-20) Roll Number(21-40) Subject(41-60) Qualification(61-80)
Sanjay Mishra 17898989898 Cooking PHD
Vaishali 67767777777 Football Eight pass
Sachin Bhavsar 9867890899999 Mathmatics Bachlor
Satish Singh 9876909090909 Hystory Graduate
Sneha Pawar 89898989898 HINDI Senior secondry

Now , throu cobol program i want to take those record in my output file which is not matching if record is present in both file then skip that record
My output file like this :

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Output :
Name (1-20) Roll Number(21-40) Subject(41-60) Qualification(61-80
Sanjay Mishra 17898989898 Cooking PHD
Vaishali 67767777777 Football Eight pass

Posted: **Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:55 am**

Hello and welcome to the forum,

Suggest you practice and become comfortable with the "Code" tag - which improves readability and preserves alignment. Also, learn to Preview so you can see your post as it will appear to the forum. TWhen the post appears as you want, then Submit.

At the top of the IBM Cobol part of the forum is a "Sticky" that contains a working example of code that does what you want (2-file match/merge sample code). Download that code (right-click save-as) and make changes for your requirement.

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