Use substring to match record and append suffix

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I have an incredibly easy problem to solve but know nothing of Excel. I have a master file that is 9000 records each 8-character. I want to use a second file that contains a subset of the 9000 records that contain only the first 6-characters:

Example:

MasterFile RequestFile

000001JA 000001
000002JB 000002
000003JJ 000005
000004JA
000005JB

What instructions (maybe SUBSTR) will take the 6-char records in the RequestFile and match the corresponding first 6-characters in the MasterFile and produce the result to a OutFile that will list the 8-character record including the JA,JB, or JJ suffix?

If I ran the 1st record of Request File, 000001 against the MasterFile, it would match the '000001'JA and produce a result record of 000001JA to the Outfile.

I just need a simple way to add the alpha suffix contained in the masterfile to the 6-char numeric request file records. I knew some TSO CLIST and REXX mainframe but don't have a clue how to code this in WindowsXP or using Excel. If you can help me, I'll gladly pay you $10 in cheeseburgers.

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