Visual Basic comparing two .txt documents

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:39:10AM -0500, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
> I have an ordering program for my customers to use. They download it from my 
> web site. What I am trying to do is have the ordering program match a list 
> of images on a web site to their inventory file on their computer and 
> download any images they are missing. Everything is set to go but the 
> comparing of the two files just takes too long.
> 
> I don't want to give them any more programs they have to install for this to 
> work. Whatever I use has to be part of the initial program install and 
> hopefully not need a DOS window to run in.

Well, I don't think you can get all of those things.

If you have two files of filenames, you need sort and uniq.  They'll,
together, do the job in about 1 line of code.  The price is you have to
have them there.

Cheers,
-- jra
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