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Joining two 2D Arrays over a common column
I have two 2D arrays, both of type String which I would like to join together. However, the catch is that I want to match up a column in each. For example;
(1)
A | B | C
D | E | F
(2)
F | A | B
C | D | E
When joining the two arrays on column 3 of (1) and 1 of (2), the result should be,
A | B | C | D | E
D | E | F | A | B
Does anyone know of an efficient way to do this?
Thanks
ps
Here is a bit of background info if you're interested. I have taken an XML file with all of Apples iTunes track information and stored in a 2D array in java. One of the columns in this array gives the location on the hard disk of each track.
I also have implemented some music information retrieval techniques to get coordinates of similarity between the songs and I have stored these along with their location in another 2D array in java.
So basically I have two 2D arrays, both of which have a column with the location of the file (which is the only way I could link the two sets of data up). I need to therefore match each tracks iTunes information with it's music properties.
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