BurntSushi/xsv

exclude command idea

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#61 opened on Mar 9, 2017

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Description

I think it would be handy to have a command to exclude matching columns from 2 csvs and print the remainder. For example:

source.csv:

id,boolean
1,yes
2,no
3,yes

exclusions.csv:

id,boolean
2,yes
4,no

syntax could be similar to join: xsv exclude <columns1> <input1> <columns2> <input2>, so

$ xsv exclude id exclusions.csv id source.csv
id,boolean
1,yes
3,yes

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Research direction
Understand the existing join command implementation in src/cmd/join.rs, then create a new exclude command that takes the complement of matching rows.
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