show differences between 2 text files

[gcue]

is there a way to show the differences with the context of two text files?

[PsaltyDS]

is there a way to show the differences with the context of two text files?

WinDiff

Edit: Even better: WinMerge

Thanks for the reminder, enaiman.

Edited May 14, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[gcue]

theres no way to do this in autoit?

i was looking through the functions.. would this be able to do it??

StringRegExp

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Check if a string fits a given regular expression pattern.

[ACS]

You could probably just use StringCompare.

You'll have to read up on how the algorithm works...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff#Algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_commo...equence_problem

[enaiman]

It is possible but it might not be so easy to do it.

Some things to consider:

- if you intend to read line by line from text files and compare them: when 1 of the file has an extra line the comparison will show that everything coming after that line being different

- if you plan to read the whole file in 1 string: only 1 character difference will cause everything coming after that char to be reported as different

- the differences might occur anywhere in the file

... and many other things ...

In my opinion it would be easier to use WinDiff as PsaltyDS suggested or WinMerge