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📣 marto1

Interactive CSV Diffing Tool?


How would you best diff two csv-s in 2021 ? And not just full matches, column by column too. Especially if you want to compare many thousands of rows.


  👤 jstx1 Accepted Answer ✓
I would use something like pandas or dplyr (Python and R libraries respectively). But that's for answering specific questions like finding duplicates, missing values, overlapping columns etc. - in my experience there's usually some more specific question to answer than just diffing in a general sense.