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Hi all, I am in need of some assistance.

I am working on a script and part of my script requires the ability to:

1). run an installation

2).when a License Agreement Dialog becomes available

3).extract the License Agreement and compare it to one that I have on my local system to make sure that the License Agreement is up-to-date - meaning that it matches the Agreement that I have on my local system.

I can obtain the Agreement while running the install, however I don't know how or if it is possible to compare 2 files to verify that they match. I can noyt use String compare and I can not compare them by line simply because I am scared that although the text might be the same the format might be different when I extract the Agreement from the License Agreement Dialog. Also because I am taking the Agreement from a window I can not use a binary compare.

Is there anyway to compare 2 complete files? Any Ideas?

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Couldn't you read both files to $read1 and $read2 and then just do

if $read1=$read2 then 
consolewrite("they match")
else
consolewrite("they don't match")
endif

.........

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Func _CompFiles($File1, $File2)
   If FileRead($File1) = FileRead($File2) Then Return 1
   Return 0
EndFunc

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Func _CompFiles($File1, $File2)
   If FileRead($File1) = FileRead($File2) Then Return 1
   Return 0
EndFunc
Would that not be:

Func _CompFiles($File1, $File2)
   If FileRead($File1) == FileRead($File2) Then Return 1
   Return 0
EndFunc

== instead of =

Would make it case sensitive. :)

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Would that not be:

Func _CompFiles($File1, $File2)
   If FileRead($File1) == FileRead($File2) Then Return 1
   Return 0
EndFunc

== instead of =

Would make it case sensitive. :)

Depends if he wants it case sensitive or not i would guess not if its just a license compare you just need to compare the words...

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I think stringcompare is the better/faster method here for more detail style. The -1/0/1 is usually all I need to know to carry out whatever functions I want.

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