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shri_27
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Hi all,
I have 2 files, where suplierID,contractID are the common fields, Now I want to exclude the values of these fieds from 1st file if the value pair is present in 2nd file.how to achieve this??
plese help me for this.

Thanks in advance

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kristian_kolb
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source=file1 NOT [search source=file2 | fields + suplierID contractID]

The subsearch gets executed first and returns the key/value pairs for the the two fields in question and then the outer search gets executed like so;

source=file1 NOT (( suplierID=X AND contractID=Y ) OR ( suplierID=X AND contractID=Z ) OR ... )

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