Comm, command help

See my other post on sdiff ....

I don't think sdiff is able to do what I want.

The 'comm' command does what I need and works fine as
far as the logic and results.
The problem I'm having is with the output format, it outputs 3 columns of data,
but because of the way it starts each line (which is one of the columns) there is overlap when I try to import this into a spreadsheet.

e.g.

col 1 col2 col3

xxxxxxx
------ xxxxxxxxx
--------------yyxxxxxxx

The yy overlaps and is a problem when importing to the spread sheet.

What is needed is a way to define the starting point of each column
of the 'comm' output ?

Any ideas ?

You can move the two input files into a better formatted set of temp files.

How are the fields defined? In other words, can you give us the first two or thre lines from each input file?

These are just ascii text files, just columns of data.

e.g.

xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx