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Merge two .dat file after matching first column row

KirtishTrivedi
Level 5
Hi Community,

I am trying to  merge two .dat files after comparing that the  first row has the same columns. Syntax for the .dat file is as below(when I open with notepad)

Project ID  Employee ID      Project Type
XXXX         xxxxxxxxxxx       xx

1 ) First I need to check if the column matches in both files
2) After that I need to append the content of second file to first file after removing the header

I thought of renaming .dat with .csv file,Append the records,save and rename back to .dat. but there were two problems :- 

1 ) Headers are in japanese. When i change extension to .csv , japanese characters are getting replaced with some other weird character.
2) When I append data to csv and rename back to .dat, " is added before the line and after the line as below

"Project ID  Employee ID      Project Type"
"XXXX         xxxxxxxxxxx       xx"

Could someone please suggest how to proceed ? 


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Kirtish Trivedi
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2 REPLIES 2

HarpreetKaur
Level 7
Hello Kritish,

Can I suggest that when you try to save your .dat file as a csv, you change the Encoding default option and select "UTF-8 with BOM" instead and then try?
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Harpreet Kaur Product Consultant
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