How to compare the contents of two tables?

I have two tables to compare. One is from this month (Feb.) and the other from the previous month (Jan.)

tab_jan = 
    Country     ID     Name    Technology    Status    x_OfTechnology    Capacity
    _______    ____    ____    __________    ______    ______________    ________

     'AAA'     1001    'a'        'BB'        'C1'            1             10   
     'AAA'     1002    'b'        'AA'        'C1'            4             24   
     'AAA'     1003    'c'        'BB'        'C2'            5             30   
     'AAA'     1004    'd'        'AA'        'C3'            4             20   
     'AAA'     1005    'e'        'AA'        'C4'           10             35   
     'AAA'     1006    'f'        'AA'        'C5'            8             40   

tab_feb = 
    Country     ID     Name    Technology    Status    x_OfTechnology    Capacity
    _______    ____    ____    __________    ______    ______________    ________

     'AAA'     1008    'h'        'CC'        'C1'            1              2   
     'AAA'     1007    'g'        'AA'        'C1'            3              9   
     'AAA'     1001    'a'        'BB'        'C2'            1             10   
     'AAA'     1003    'c'        'BB'        'C2'            4             24   
     'AAA'     1004    'd'        'AA'        'C3'            4             20   
     'AAA'     1005    'e'        'AA'        'C4'           10             35   
     'AAA'     1006    'f'        'AA'        'C5'            8             40   

Compared to January, on February following things happened:

• Project a (ID: 1001) moved up to C2
• Project b (ID: 1002) got deleted
• Project c (ID: 1003) capacity decreased due to drecrease in number of technology
• Project g (ID: 1007) got added as a new C1 project
• Project h (ID: 1008) got added as a new C1 project and as a new Technology CC

How may I proceed with the comparison of the presented tables to obtain the list of changes as the result?

Answer 1

[Voss]

Here is something that will print changes in the tables to the command-line:

tab_jan = readtable('jan.csv');
tab_feb = readtable('feb.csv');

% deleted projects:
[is_extant,idx_in_feb] = ismember(tab_jan.ID,tab_feb.ID);
if any(~is_extant)
    fprintf('Projects Deleted between Jan and Feb:\n');
    disp(tab_jan(~is_extant,:));
    fprintf('\n');
end

Projects Deleted between Jan and Feb:

    Country     ID     Name     Technology    Status    x_OfTechnology    Capacity
    _______    ____    _____    __________    ______    ______________    ________

    {'AAA'}    1002    {'b'}      {'AA'}      {'C1'}          4              24   

% newly added projects:
added_idx = ~ismember(tab_feb.ID,tab_jan.ID);
if any(added_idx)
    fprintf('Projects Added between Jan and Feb:\n');
    disp(tab_feb(added_idx,:));
    fprintf('\n');
end

Projects Added between Jan and Feb:

    Country     ID     Name     Technology    Status    x_OfTechnology    Capacity
    _______    ____    _____    __________    ______    ______________    ________

    {'AAA'}    1008    {'h'}      {'CC'}      {'C1'}          1              2    
    {'AAA'}    1007    {'g'}      {'AA'}      {'C1'}          3              9    

% changed projects:
no_changes = true;
props = tab_jan.Properties.VariableNames;
format_prefix = 'Project %s (ID: %d) ''%s'' changed: ';
for ii = 1:height(tab_jan)
    if ~is_extant(ii)
        continue
    end
    args = {tab_jan{ii,'Name'}{1},tab_jan{ii,'ID'},[],[],[]};
    for jj = 1:numel(props)
        if isequal(tab_jan{ii,jj},tab_feb{idx_in_feb(ii),jj})
            continue
        end
        args(3:5) = { ...
            props{jj}, ...
            tab_jan{ii,jj}, ...
            tab_feb{idx_in_feb(ii),jj} ...
            };
        if iscell(tab_jan{ii,jj})
            args{4} = args{4}{1};
            args{5} = args{5}{1};
            my_format = [format_prefix '%s -> %s\n'];
        else
            my_format = [format_prefix '%d -> %d\n'];
        end
        if no_changes
            fprintf('Projects Changed between Jan and Feb:\n');
            no_changes = false;
        end
        fprintf(my_format,args{:});
    end
end

Projects Changed between Jan and Feb:

Project a (ID: 1001) 'Status' changed: C1 -> C2
Project c (ID: 1003) 'x_OfTechnology' changed: 5 -> 4
Project c (ID: 1003) 'Capacity' changed: 30 -> 24