How to find differences between 2 large tables that have a mix of string and numbers?

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Tanika Bawa
Tanika Bawa 2023-7-17
评论： Peter Perkins 2023-7-18
Hello! I have 2 very large tables that have the same number of rows and columns (20441x30), and I would like to know exactly which cells are different. I have tried 'Compare' in the Home tab, but it only tells me in the difference summary 'added', not which values/variables were added). I have also tried setdiff and ismember (error below), but it has a problem with one of my variables (maybe because it has NaNs too in the table).
Error using cell/union>cellunionR2012a (line 242)
Input A of class double and input B of class cell must be cell arrays of character vectors, unless one is a character
vector.
Do you know how I can compare tables that have a mix of string and numbers?
Thank you!
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Dyuman Joshi
Dyuman Joshi 2023-7-17
"(maybe because it has NaNs too in the table)"
FYI - MATLAB treats NaNs (as well as NaTs, <undefined> and <missing>) values as not equal to each other, nor equal to themselves as well.
If you want to compare NaNs (and others) and output true, use isequaln

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst 2023-7-17
Have you tried iterating over every element of both tables using isequal to determine whether the locations are the same? Something like (untested)
[rows, columns] = size(table1);
matches = false(rows, columns); % Initialize to no matches (no equality).
for col = 1 : columns
for row = 1 : rows
% See if this location is equal.
% Set equality map to true if they're equal.
if isequal(table1{row, col}, table2{row, col})
matches(row, col) = true;
end
end
end
Alternatively you can compare the numeric columns using table2array and subtracting.
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Peter Perkins
Peter Perkins 2023-7-17
编辑：Peter Perkins 2023-7-17
I thnk looping over every row in the tables will not be very performant. I would think this will do better:
matches = false(size(table1));
for var = 1 : width(table1)
matches(:,var) = (table1.(var)==table2.(var)) ...
|| (ismissing(table1.(var)) && ismissing(table2.(var)))
end
That assumes the variables support ismissing; you might need a try/catch in general.
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