Dear,
I'm trying write a simple C program that h two input files. Both are large files. First file has one column and second file has two columns. Just compare the first colums of both files and print the whole line of second file that matches first one.

File2.txt

123456 ABCDE
234567 DEFER
563467 UIERT
349056 UIFRT

File1.txt

234567
563467

The output file should be like this

234567 DEFER
563467 UIERT

Could some one help me in finding logic.

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What have you tried?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
FILE *f1;
FILE *f2;
FILE *f3;
void compare(char filename1[30],char filename2[30]){
  f1=fopen(filename1,"r"); 
  f2=fopen(filename2,"r"); 
  f3=fopen("new.txt","w");
  char word1[40];
  char word2[40];
  int k=0;
  while(!feof(f1)){
           fscanf(f1,"%s",word1);
           if(k==1){
                    fprintf(f3,"%s\n",word1);
                    k=0;
                    }   
           fseek(f2,0,0);      
        while(!feof(f2)){
          fscanf(f2,"%s",word2);

          if(strcmp(word1,word2)==0){

            k++;                         
           fprintf(f3,"%s\t",word1);
           break;
           }
           }
           }
           }

main(){
       compare("f1.txt","f2.txt");

       }
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