combining two excel files. second excel file sub group of the first file.

Hi. I have an excel file with 2000 rows and another excel file with 400 rows. I want to add the the second file to the first one at the row that have the matching names. please find example below. I would greatly appriciate the help.Thank you in advance!

tabel 1:

name category1 category 2 ....

112 yes no

888 no yes

986 yes yes

664 no no

table 2:

name result1 result2 .....

743 yes no

112 yes yes

664 no yes

note: the two tables have row name '112' and '664' in common. I want to add data to those row names! and leave the rows that dont match blank.

desired resulting tabel:

name category1 category 2.... result1 result2 ....

112 yes no yes yes

888 no yes

986 yes yes

664 no no no yes

Answer 1

[Jyotsna Talluri]

There can be many ways to do this.One possible way is ..

First join the two tables using 'outerjoin'

t=outerjoin(table1,table2,'Type','left','MergeKeys',true,'LeftKeys',{'name'},'RightKeys',{'name'});

It generates a new table with the columns of table2 appended to the colums of table1 with some NaN values for rows that don't match in the two tables. These NaN values can be replaced by empty values as below

v=t.Properties.VariableNames;
t=table2cell(t);
for i=2:size(t,2)
    for j=1:size(t,1)
        if isnan(t{j,i})
            t{j,i}={[]};
        end
    end
 end
t=cell2table(t,'VariableNames',v);

[ALDO]

Thank you very much for your fast responce! I will try it out and let you know how it goes